{"id":611,"date":"2017-10-11T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=611"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:09:12","slug":"animal-mummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/animal-mummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Mummies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks absolutely ghastly. These people must be desperate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drawn from our renowned collection, the exhibition features choice examples from among the many millions of mummies of birds, cats, dogs, snakes, and other animals preserved from at least thirty-one different cemeteries throughout Egypt. Animals were central to the ancient Egyptian worldview. Most animals had connections to a particular deity. After death, mummified animals\u2019 souls could carry a message to a god.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mummified-cat.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-612 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mummified-cat-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Brooklyn Museum<\/h2>\n<h4>Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt<\/h4>\n<h4>SEPTEMBER 29, 2017\u2013JANUARY 21, 2018<\/h4>\n<h4>Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks absolutely ghastly. These people must be desperate. Drawn from our renowned collection, the exhibition features choice examples from among the many millions of mummies of birds, cats, dogs, snakes, and other animals preserved from at least thirty-one different cemeteries throughout Egypt. 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