Ti Ameny Net Mummy

A little know fact about the University of Richmond’s Department of Classical Studies is that the department is home to not only faculty, staff and students but to one three-millennia-old mummy, Ti Ameny Net.

Displayed in the department's Ancient World Gallery in North Court, Ti Ameny Net (also spelled by translators as Djai Ameni Niwet), along with her sarcophagus, has been a resident of Richmond and a piece of campus folklore since 1876 when Dr. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, a professor at Richmond College, brought the mummy back from an excursion to Egypt.

Her history is long and eventful. Buried in Egypt between 950 and 730 BCE and exhumed in the second half of the 19th century, the mummy traveled to Richmond via England and Philadelphia. Over the years, Egyptologists have conducted analyses of her bone structure and sarcophagus, including its intricate hieroglyphics. A video presentation on Ti Ameny Net is available.