Sacred Nile Crocodile Mummies

The animal is the case above is a huge mummified Nile crocodile, somewhat flattened with age and dessication

SACRED CROCODILES
Mummified crocodiles, sacred to the god Sobek, were also common in Egypt. These were probably cured with natron or even salt and wrapped. They do not show signs of evisceration. Some crocodile burials not only included juvenille and adult crocodiles but their eggs, containing recognizable foetuses, in some instances over 50!

Crocodile mummies were often faked with reeds and bones.

This crocodile egg has a small crocodile inside

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