The tragic fireplace of September 2, 2018, which destroyed Brazil’s Nationwide Museum, in addition to most of its collections, took with it one in all South America’s most necessary Egyptian collections doubtless together with the beautiful twenty third Dynasty mummy Sha-Amun-em-su and her coffin. The museum’s web site says this of her,

“This coffin was a gift supplied by the Khedive of Egypt Ismail to the Emperor of Brazil D. Pedro II when he visited Egypt in 1876. D. Pedro II saved it standing upright in his examine, close to a window open at some point, the coffin was hit by a window-catch, breaking a part of its facet. Its left facet was then repaired, this characteristic remains to be seen at this time”

Sha-Amun-em-su was not the one mummy within the assortment together with 700 different historic Egyptian artifacts. The museums show of a minimum of 21 stone stele in all probability have the very best probability of getting survived the fireplace although if they’ve their doubtless in shattered items however some hope lingers a minimum of to this author. One in all my favorites of those monuments is a nineteenth Dynasty limestone stele belonging to a person named Amenemopet.

The unlucky fireplace might have been prevented had the 200-year-old palace been topic to common upgrades over time  So typically we see museums around the globe which don’t appear to learn from their thousands and thousands of tourists

I might hope that the curators and trustees of the worlds historic Egyptian collections will be capable of attain into their reserve collections and donate a few of their doubles to assist replenish this Brazilian establishment of studying in order that at some point Brazil’s 200 million plus individuals and future generations will once more be excited and impressed by historic Egypt in Brazil. However first, a brand new museum must be discovered or rebuilt with correct funding maybe, overseas donations to assist in order that any future assortment in Brazil won’t be relegated to a different uncared for constructing.

Notes:

1. Photos of the coffin of Sha-Amun-em-su and stele of Amenemopet by Luiza G. da Silva, Antonio Brancaglion  National Museum of Brazil

2. Seshat: Egyptological Laboratory of the National Museum of Brazil

3. Picture of the mother often known as “Princess Kherima” 

4. Wikipedia for extra pictures