In addition, there are four canopic jars, a sarcophagus, and cartonnage (coverings) that range in age from roughly 500 AD to roughly 945 BCE.

The donation accessioning process is still in progress, with a formal conclusion anticipated next year. Two years ago, UCC issued a statement announcing its intention to repatriate the items.

In 1928, it received the mummified remains as a gift from the African Missions. Prior to being stored, the mummy was under the custody of the Department of Pathology.

"Kinship," a creative initiative headed by artist Dr. Dorothy Cross and creative producer Mary Hickson, chronicles the objects' journey back to Egypt.


According to Dr. Cross, the project's main goal is to bring the mummified body back to Cairo from Ireland.

She stated that this reflects "the tragic displacement and migration of thousands of people from their homelands today, linking one man through time" .

The mummy was taken from Dublin Airport on an Air Egypt trip to Cairo earlier this month. It is thought to be that of a middle-aged adult male who may have been a priest from Thebes.

After that, the mummy was brought to a city museum. The mummy is thought to have been created between 305 BC and 500 AD, during the Ptolemaic period.

A higher-ranking individual named Hor, whose family members are housed in the Museum of Egyptology in Turin, Italy, initially occupied the sarcophagus that held the mummy, which was 300 years older than the body.