{"id":239157,"date":"2022-05-05T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ancient-egyptian-mummy-forgotten-in-storage-turns-out-to-be-sacred-bird-often-sacrificed-to-thoth"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:24:37","slug":"ancient-egyptian-mummy-forgotten-in-storage-turns-out-to-be-sacred-bird-often-sacrificed-to-thoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ancient-egyptian-mummy-forgotten-in-storage-turns-out-to-be-sacred-bird-often-sacrificed-to-thoth","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Egyptian mummy forgotten in storage turns out to be sacred bird often sacrificed to Thoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Ann Barsody and Frederic Gleach examine the over 1,500-year-old mummy bird.An ancient Egyptian bird mummy, long forgotten in storage and mislabeled as a hawk, is finally getting its due now that researchers have digitally peered inside its wrappings.The 1,500-year-old mummy, scientists learned, is not a hawk but likely a sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopica) &#8212; a wading bird with stilt-like legs and a long curved beak that the ancient Egyptians often sacrificed to Thoth, the god of the moon, reckoning, learning and writing.&#8221;Not only was this once a living creature that people of the day may have enjoyed watching stroll through the water,&#8221; Carol Ann Barsody, a masters student in archaeology at Cornell University, who spearheaded the project, said in a statement (opens in new tab). &#8220;It also was, and is, something sacred, something religious.&#8221;Cornell University has no record of the mummy&#8217;s arrival into its collections. Barsody initially suspected that the mummy arrived as part of an 1884 freight of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient Egyptian bird mummy, long forgotten in storage and mislabeled as a hawk, is finally getting its due now that researchers have digitally peered inside its wrappings. The 1,500-year-old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}