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Specimen of mummy cloth

Title
Specimen of mummy cloth
Description
This handmade booklet contains a small specimen of cloth from the 'unwrapping' of a mummy held at UCL in 1889. It belonged to Reginald Arthur Rye, University Librarian and a keen Egyptologist, and was collected for him by his father. The mummy in question was later destroyed by bombing in WW2
Date
Identifier
MS1095
Collection
Objects Exhibit