Photos: Ancient Egyptian Statues of Deities Found in Pit

By Laura Geggel
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Mut statuette

buried egyptian deities

(Image credit: Copyright J. Maucor/CFEETK-CNRS-MoA; Copyright Antiquity)

The favissa also held two statuettes of Mut, the mother goddess of Thebes. This statuette had hieroglyphic inscriptions on it.

[Read the full story on the Egyptian burial here]

Laura Geggel
Laura Geggel
Editor

Laura is the archaeology/history and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including archaeology and paleontology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site on autism research. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle. Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU.