Ancient Mummy Found Entombed in Strange Cocoon Never Seen by Archeologists
LAURA GEGGEL, LIVE SCIENCE
4 FEBRUARY 2021
The discovery of a rare mud mummy from ancient Egypt has surprised archaeologists, who weren t expecting to find the deceased encased in a hardened mud shell.
The mud carapace is an unparalleled find; it reveals a mortuary treatment not previously documented in the Egyptian archaeological record, the researchers wrote in the study, published online Wednesday (Feb. 3) in the journal
It s possible the mud wrap was used to stabilize the mummy after it was damaged, but the mud may have also been meant to emulate practices used by society s elite, who were sometimes mummified with imported resin-based materials during a nearly 350-year period, from the late New Kingdom to the 21st Dynasty (about 1294 BCE to 945 BCE), the researchers said.
صدى البلد: مومياء منذ 3000 سنة تكشف أسرارا جديدة عن التحنيط
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Archaeologists uncover never-before-seen mud mummy from ancient Egypt
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If all mummies were covered like a recently discovered one, mummy movies would probably be less scary … but perhaps a little kinky. CT scans of a mummified adult from Egypt, now in the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney showed the body to be covered in a mud shell or carapace, a mortuary treatment not previously documented in Egypt. Would a movie with wrestling mud mummies be classified as horror … or porn?
“The mummified body was acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson during his trip to Egypt in 1856–1857. Little is known about its acquisition, as is sadly the case for many human bodies procured in Egypt by European and American collectors in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The mummified body, the lidded coffin in which it rested and its mummy board originated in Western Thebes and was likely purchased in Luxor. The ensemble was donated to the University of Sydney by Nicholson in 1860.”