Where is Joseph's Mummy?

The Bible claims that Joseph's mummified body was exhumed and transported to Canaan by the Israelites, while Yuya's remained undisturbed in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, where his mummy was discovered in 1905.
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Was Jacob mummified Egypt?

He told Express.co.uk: "Archaeological insights have come to light that shed detailed information on how one of the most famous people in the Bible, Jacob, the founder of the children of Israel, was embalmed and mummified in Egypt.
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Is there a statue of Joseph in Egypt?

It seems the Egyptians also believe that what they're hiding in the bowels of the Cairo Museum is the only monument of Joseph ever found.
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What happened to Jesus's father Joseph?

Death and Sainthood

The circumstances of Joseph's death are not known, but it is likely that he died before Jesus's ministry began, and it is implied that he was dead before the Crucifixion (John 19:26-27).
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Where is the prophet Moses buried?

Death and burial of Moses in Islam

The biblical book of Deuteronomy records that Moses "was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor" (east of the Jordan River) and that "no one knows the place of his burial to this day" (Deut 34:6).
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What happened to Joseph after Jacob died?

After Jacob died, his body was embalmed in Egypt. Following a period of mourning, Joseph and his brothers buried Jacob's body in the land of Canaan, according to his wishes. With their father dead, Joseph's brothers feared that Joseph would seek revenge on them for their past injustices to him.
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How long did the Egyptians mourn for Joseph?

Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him. taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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Where is Adam and Eve buried?

The cave of Machpelah, in the West Bank city of Hebron, is the burial place of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. According to Jewish mystical tradition, it's also the entrance to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are buried.
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Where is Adam buried?

Christian tradition generally places the tomb of Adam in Jerusalem under the place where Jesus was crucified, called the "Cave of Treasures" and described in the Syriac "Book of the Cave of Treasures." Jewish tradition generally places the burial place of Adam in the Cave of Machpelah where Abraham and his sons are ...
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Where is Hebron located today?

Hebron is located 20 miles south of Jerusalem in the West Bank. With a population of 200,000+ Palestinians and around 1,000 Israeli settlers, Hebron is the biggest city in the Palestinian territory. Its name in both Hebrew (Hevron) and Arabic (Al-Khalil) translates to "friend."
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Who was Joseph's wife?

In the Bible, Pharaoh honors Joseph by giving him as a wife Asenath, “the daughter of Potiphera, priest from the city of On” (LXX: Heliopolis; Gen 41:45). She is the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim (Gen 41:50; 46:20).
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Why did all the Egyptians cried out to Joseph?

There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food. When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do what he tells you."
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How many children did Mary and Joseph have?

They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph (the most natural inference); (2) sons of the Mary named in Mark 15:40 as "mother of James and Joses", whom Jerome identified with the wife of Clopas and sister of Mary the mother of Jesus; or (3) sons of Joseph by a former marriage.
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How old was Joseph when Jesus died?

By contrast, the apocryphal History of Joseph the Carpenter, from the 5th or 6th century, has a long account of Joseph's peaceful death, at the age of 111, in the presence of Jesus (aged about 19), Mary and angels.
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How old was Mary when she married Joseph?

In fact, according to Jewish law and customs of the day, Mary and Joseph probably would have both been young when they married. “Girls were usually engaged sometime between the ages of 12 and 15, and would be married sometime thereafter, at 15 or 16, and boys would have been 19 or 20,” Fredriksen says.
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Where is Moses staff now?

According to an identifying document at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Moses's staff would supposedly be on display today at the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Turkey. The Topkapi Palace holds other reputedly holy relics, most notably those attributed to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.
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Where is the promised land today?

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land, which is today known as Israel.
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Where is Ishmael buried?

After this, God sent Ishmael as a prophet to the Amalekites and the tribes of Yemen. When the time of Ishmael's death was at hand, he bequeathed to his brother Isaac that he should marry his daughter to Esau son of Isaac. Ishmael lived for 137 years and was buried in al-Hijr in the tomb of his mother Hagar.
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How many wives did Joseph have in the Bible?

In an essay posted without fanfare to its website in late October, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said for the first time that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, had as many as 40 wives. Some of those women were also married to friends of his.
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What is Joseph's Egyptian name?

Zaphnath-Paaneah (Biblical Hebrew: צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ Ṣāfənaṯ Paʿnēaḫ, LXX: Ψονθομφανήχ Psonthomphanḗch) is the name given by Pharaoh to Joseph in the Genesis narrative (Genesis 41:45).
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How many wives did Moses have?

Miriam and Aaron were jealous because Moses had two wives and because more of his attention would have been taken by the newly married woman. It is not unusual in an African setting for relatives and friends to be jealous when husbands are too occupied with two or three wives.
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Can you visit the tomb of Abraham?

The Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron is well worth visiting. Particularly revered by Jews and Muslims, this is the spot where key figures of the Bible and Quran (Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah) are believed to be buried.
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