大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 9月14日 19時30分

💕 Enjoy this heart content to your heart’s content 💕

These gorgeous objects are ancient Egyptian heart amulets – small decorative objects worn by both the living and the dead to promote health and good luck.

❤️ It’s fair to say we’re enamoured with these amulets - which one is your favourite?

👉 Swipe across to see the beautiful variety and details in these tiny creations!

For the ancient Egyptians, the heart was the source of intelligence, feelings and memory.

⚖️ The ancient Egyptians believed that after death the heart would be weighed against a feather – a light heart guaranteed passage to the next life, while a heavy heart condemned the deceased to be devoured by a terrifying creature called Ammut.

🏛️ Learn more funerary customs along the Nile in Room 63 of the Museum – Egyptian death and afterlife.

🔎 Assortment of heart amulets. Faience and semi-precious stones, from across Egypt, around 1350–1200 BC.

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