Photographer Richard Barnes’ unique take on the animals exhibited at the Natural History Museum has been detailed here before. Now National Geographic‘s November issue documents his work at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, where the animals are all mummified. Before you get huffy, many were treated better than humans as they were prepared to escort their well-to-do owners into the afterlife or mummified as “the living representatives of a god.” Others were meant to serve as a meal in the afterlife. After the jump, the Barnes photos.
