Sir Grafton Elliot Smith describes the mummy of Yuya as one of the finest examples of the embalming practices of the 18th Dynasty. Related: Tutankhamun’s mother (The Younger Lady) Their faces in particular were relatively undistorted by the process of mummification, and provide an extraordinary insight into the actual appearance of the deceased while alive
Both the mummies were largely intact and were in an amazing state of preservation.
Yuya depicted within his Book of the DeadĪlthough the burial site was robbed in antiquity, many objects not considered worth plundering by the robbers remained.
