OHIO HISTORY MUSEUM'S NESYKHONSUPASHERYA

Sullivant Hall has an incredibly rich history. At one time being a home for the Ohio History Museum. Artifacts meaningful to Ohio history populated every room. However, one curious object stuck out greatly to student researcher Stacey Dunten. It was not an object relating to Ohio history. It was an Egyptian mummy named Nesykhonsupasherya.

Explore Stacey's Curiosity Cabinet to learn about the mummy Nesykhonsupasherya! click on the button and you will see the cabinet filled with objects related to the mummy. Use your finger to move around the scene. You can pinch your thumb and forefigner to zoom into the box and examine it more closely.

A fascinating and peculiar addition placed in Sullivant Hall’s Ohio History Museum in 1926. Nesykhonsupasherya was presented as a gift by J. Morton Howell, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt.

In the museum, the mummy was treated as a mere curiosity rather than an object of historical significance. Overlooked so much it took almost 70 years to figure out that the body in the sarcophagus was actually not the mummy the hieroglyphics claimed she was…

Find out more about the mummy by looking through Stacey’s cabinet of curiosities. The cabinet containing articles and objects associated with the mummy’s journey to being recognized as a person with an actual identity. Read the articles, notice how the information was pieced together by following the strings, and click on the items in the cabinet for even more information!