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State Hermitage Museum
Государственный Эрмитаж
Saint Petersburg, Russia
030526 (August 16, 2024)
Photo by: Safa
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Mummy of the priest Pa-di-ist, 10th century BC
Many visitors come to the Hermitage to see one of its, perhaps, most eerie artifacts – a 3,000-year-old mummy. The mummy, identified as Pa-di-ist, a male priest, is exhibited lying down in a carefully secured bulletproof glass casket in the museum's Hall of Ancient Egypt.
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