Links discovered between objects in collections around the country including Dundee

A map of Scotland’s ancient Egyptian collections has been redrawn following a review which charted a treasure trove of objects around the country.

Experts at the National Museums Scotland (NMS) identified 25 collections with Egyptian artefacts, including nine previously unknown, and located around 14,000 objects during the course of their research.

Researchers discovered links between objects in collections around the country, including Dundee.

Museums across the UK, including the Mclean Museum in Greenock and Paisley Museum, subscribed to the Egypt Exploration Fund.

Their subscriptions funded professional excavations in Egypt and in return these museums received a share of the finds.

The review established that the Mclean Museum and the Mcmanus Museum in Dundee both hold cartonnage mummy cases from the same burial group at Herakleopolis Magna excavated by Edouard Naville for the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society).

Similarly, several pieces of a tomb excavated by the archaeologist WM Flinders Petrie in 1897-98 are now to be found across Scotland, in the collections of National Museums Scotland, Glasgow Museums and the Mcmanus.

Perth also has an ancient Egyptian Mummy, which was recently the subject of extensive investigations.

Dan Potter, NMS assistant curator of ancient Mediterranean who worked on the project, said: “Being able to read the inscription and share it with the museum maybe for the first time in a couple of hundred years, or even thousands of years, that is a real privilege being able to shed a proper light on these objects.

“The review provides the greatest