(Clockwise) The excellent state of preservation of the mummies of Yuya and Tjuyu bear testimony to the skill of 18th-Dynasty embalmers; an excavation assistant stands beside the 2.75 meter outermost coffin of Yuya shortly after its discovery (Public Domain); this, the most perfectly preserved and beautiful of the series of seven anthropoid coffins of Tuya, is, except for the eyes and the necklace, entirely covered in gold. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. (Photo: Heidi Kontkanen)