Many different innovations and discoveries have come from Scotland and its people. “Discoveries” is the gallery in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh that looks at Scots whose ideas, innovations and leadership took them across the world. This includes inventors, diplomats, and others. Shown below are photographs of some of the displays in this gallery.
Ahurnasirpal II was the son of Tukult-Ninurta II and consolidated his father’s conquests which then led to the establishment of the New Assyrian Empire.
The mummy is Iufenamun, a Senior Priest who dates to the tenth century BCE, the Third Intermediate Period, Early 22nd Dynasty. He appears to be about 40 years old. Iufenamun was an important priest at the Temple of Karnak. Among his duties was the responsibility for the necropolis known today as the Valley of the Kings.
The coffin doesn’t actually belong to Iufenamun, but to Tjentwerethequa, a priestess of Amun who may have been Iufenamun’s grandmother.
Shown above is a display regarding Scottish design (Daniel Cottier (1838-1891)) and architecture (Robert Adam (1728-1792)).