A Story of a Stork

Abstract

The Náprstek Museum, Prague holds in its collection an ancient Egyptian mummy of Abdim’s stork. The mummy, along with other ancient Egyptian antiquities, was transferred to the National Museum in 1933 from the Esterházy chateau in Tomášikovo, Slovakia. Originally, it was believed to be the mummy of a human child; however, examination through initially destructive and later non-destructive methods identified the object as a mummy of a stork.