Mind Over Memory has a weekly invitation for sculpture photos. Last year, when we got home from our trip to the Middle East, we visited the Egyptian exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago. These are sculptures – or sculpted wooden mummy cases. Royalty in ancient Egypt would encase their mummified loved ones in several of these cases. The wooden ones might be painted, while others were made of bronze or glass.
Next to this polished wood mummy case are canopic jars, buried with the deceased, containing their vital organs, which are removed before mummification.
Small sculptures of gods would also be buried in the tomb to offer protection in the afterlife.
Figurine of the god Osiris
Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s architect, Senmet holding her daughter
Wanderlust & Wonderment 
Just beautiful.😀