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Kristina Killgrove

Bead net funerary shroud: A 2,500-year-old beaded veil from Egypt depicting the deceased's transformation into Osiris

The shroud was made from a net of thousands of colored beads. (Image credit: Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson (CC0, Public Domain))

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