Ti Ameny Net was buried in a tomb in the sands of Egypt some time during the Egyptian pharaonic twenty-second dynasty between the years 950 and 730 B.C. She is placed in her temporal setting through the composition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the first Olympic games, and the founding of the city of Rome.

Ti Ameny Net died childless and young. To this day, her cause of death remains unknown. We do know that her mother's name was Ruru, or Lulu and her father's name was Nesy Amun. Ti Ameny Net's parents may very well have outlived their daughter. It is evident from her elaborate and extravagant burial that Ti Ameny Net's family must have held great wealth and station in ancient Egypt. Her burial was of the most auspicious nature so as to assure the best in her after-life.

Ti Ameny Net was allowed to rest in her proper tomb in the sands of Egypt for nearly three thousand years. The jaded taste of one of Victorian England's most notorious playboys, the exaggerated interest in death and death-related objects peculiar to the Victorian period, and archaeology's dependence upon cemetary looting for many of its most prized possesions are all in some way responsible for Ti Ameny Net's questionable exhumation. Today, Ti Ameny Net rests peacefully in the Ancient World Gallery in North Court on the campus of the University of Richmond.

The story of Ti Ameny Net's travels following her exumation is a long and cumbersome one. The following is a chronology of how Ti Ameny Net arrived at her current resting place at the University of Richmond's Ancient World Gallery:

950 - 730 b.c. - Ti Ameny Net is buried in the sands of ancient Egypt.

December, 1875 - Dr. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, of Richmond, Virginia while visiting Egypt, joined a tour up the Nile under the escort of Mr. John M. Cook of Thomas Cook and Son. While at the village of Luxor, Curry purchased from an American gentleman residing there, a mummy and mummiform case of what is believed to be an Egyptian priestess or princess. According to available information, the mummy and case had been previously presented some years earlier to the Prince of Wales by the Khedive. The prince in turn had given it to an American gentleman who had been his interpreter. Curry was a member of the faculty of Richmond College and the son-in-law of Richmond College trustee James Thomas, Jr. It was decided that the mummy and case would be transported to Philadelphia where it would then be displayed at the Thomas Cook pavilion at the Centennial Exposition. Click here to see the bulletin announcing the showcase of Ti Ameny Net at the Centennial Exposition. Following the exposition, Ti Ameny Net and her sarcophagus were transported to, and became the property of, the new Baptist college museum in Richmond, Va.

Dr. Curry

December, 1876 - The mummy and case arrived in Richmond where a reception and banquet were held for both the mummy and Dr. Curry. This was an exciting time for professors Winston & Curry who had been in ardent pursuit of ancient artifacts and objects for the new Richmond College museum collection which began in 1872.

September 22, 1887 - The new South Wing of Richmond College's Robert Ryland Hall is completed. The wing includes the new J. B. Jeter Memorial Library on the first floor, and the James Thomas, Jr. Memorial Museum and Art Hall on the second floor. The museum collection, including the mummy and sarcophagus, continued to reside here until 1914.

September, 1914 - Richmond College moved to its present location in the Westhampton section of western Richmond, and there was no appointed place for a museum. Consequently, a university paper writes, "The collections were placed here and there, in attic, basement, storeroom or corridor." As the years passed, most of the collection disappeared. No one knows the whereabouts of most of the objects today. The mummy and case, after purportedly being housed for many years in the living room of Charles Ryland, Richmond College professor, were placed in the Biology Museum of Richmond College's Maryland Hall. They remained there until 1977.

1976 - Ti Ameny Net was x-rayed at the Naval Ballistics laboratory in Indian Head, Maryland.

Autumn, 1977 - The remodeling of Maryland Hall as an administration building caused the dissolution of the Biology Museum, and, once again, the lack of a home for Ti Ameny Net.

With no designated home for the mummy, she was placed in a closet in Richmond College's North Court. During the construction of the Ancient World Gallery, Ti Ameny Net spent time on the floor of Professor Stuart Wheeler's office, and various other places, until coming to her final resting place.