Each Golden Bast is made from resin

Each Golden Bast is made from resin, finished in gold paint with coloured highlighted details, the Bast is stood on a hieroglyph inscribed base.

 The Goddess Bast is often depicted holding a sistrum, symbolizing her role as a goddess of dance, joy and festivity. A sistrum is a musical instrument, associated with ancient Egypt and was used in religious ceremonies. A percussion instrument, the sistrum created a range of sound from tinkling to a loud jangling.

Height 14cm Width 3cm Depth 5cm

Would look incredible in the hallway of a mansion house or Collectors Room or antique / Curio Shop or in an Egyptian setting.

DOLLS HOUSE SPHINX

DOLLS HOUSE SPHINX Golden Egyptian Sphinx is made from resin, finished in gold paint, with the hieroglyphs inlayed with black paint as well as other highlighted details.  A Sphinx is a zoomorphic mythological figure, which is commonly depicted as a recumbent lion with a woman's head. Sphinxes were generally used as temple guardians, most famous is the Great Sphinx of Giza which guards the Pyramid of Khafre. Height 9cm Length 11cm Depth 3.5cm

Bastet was the proctress of cats

  

Bastet was the proctress of cats. The Ancient Egyptians had a great respect for cats since they protected the grain from mice and rats. Killing a cat was punishable by death. When a cat died, the family mourned it, shaving their eyebrows to mark their sadness. Cats were sometimes mummified, like people, and their mummies have been found.

Each item is made from resin and coloured black with a soft polished finish.

H9.5cm x W2.5cm x D5.5cm.

Would look incredible in the hallway or Collectors Room or antique / Curio Shop or in an Egyptian setting.

Significance of Discovery

The royal bloodline that Tutankhamun's family shared, ended with the death of the young pharaoh, and with that came a question of the legitimacy of the following rulers. King Tut's tomb was the only one discovered that was not very disturbed by grave robbers, which allowed Carter to uncover many artifacts and the untouched mummy. It gave amazing insight into the royal burials, mummification, and tombs of the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty. Since its discovery and wide-spread popularity, it has led to DNA testing done on it and other mummies from the time period that now give a proven family tree for many of the royalty during the 18th Dynasty. Since his death was unexpected and either poorly recorded or simply the records were lost over the years, with the discovery of his mummy and advances in modern technology, there is now strong and supported evidence as to Tut's death, and with that one of Egypt's most popular mysteries appears to have been solved.

Paul Doherty

Paul Doherty, a British historian who has written many articles and books on the subject of Ancient Egypt, uses physical evidence collected about the mummy to suggest his theory that Tut suffered from Marfan Syndrome. He believed Tut must have genetically inherited the disease, and it eventually led to his death.

Popular speculation

Since the discovery of Tutankhamun's mummy, there has been a lot of speculation and theories[by whom?] on the exact cause of death, which until recent studies had been hard to prove with the evidence and data available. While it was a widely debated topic for many Egyptologists, it had also spread to the general public as popular culture has come up with many conspiracy theories that played out in movies, TV shows, and fictional books. Author James Patterson has even recently written his own take in his new book, The Murder of King Tut. There are many educated and respected Egyptologists as well as trained professionals in other fields who have devoted a lot of time researching Tut and who have varying beliefs to Tut's cause of death. Some have stood by their theories even in light of new evidence. Some of the theories are better known and supported than others.

DNA testing done from 2007-2009

From September 2007 to October 2009, 11 royal mummies of the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty have undergone extensive genetic and radiological testing. A team of doctors, under the leadership of Dr. Zahi Hawass, took DNA samples from bone tissue of the 11 mummies to determine a family pedigree and to determine if any familial, pathological diseases caused Tutankhamun's death. The study was able to provide a 5-generation pedigree, and the KV55 mummy and KV35YL mummy were identified as Tut's parents. KV55 is believed to have contained the body of Ahkenhaten and in KV35, a young lady mummy was discovered and believed to be either Kiya or Nefertiti. It was discovered that Tutankhamun's family had a large number of irregularities. Four of the mummies, including Tut, were shown to have had Malaria tropica. Based on all the data, the study concluded the most likely cause of death for the young king was the combination of avascular necrosis and Malaria. The fact that a cane and Ancient Egyptian-style medicines were found in the tomb backed up Hawass's claim that Tut suffered from a walking impairment.