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Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

But there are paths to mummified eternity that don’t involve canopic jars, natron salts, or brain-removing hooks.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2023

Researchers determined the object was the lid of a canopic jar dedicated to the funerary god Imsety, containing the liver of a mummified person.

From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2022

For instance, did you know that ancient Egyptian burial rites sometimes included human sacrifice and that mummification involved removing the internal organs and preserving them in objects called canopic jars?

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2014

I figure, self-repairing nano-based canopic jar, mass enough to feed it—say, a trillion-ton asteroid—and a lot of solitude when the time comes around.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory