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Mummy Found in 'Empty' Coffin Could be Egyptian High Priestess

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the are-you-my-mummy? dept.

mrpg writes:

https://news.sky.com/story/mummy-found-in-empty-coffin-could-be-egyptian-high-priestess-11307248

For 150 years, an Australian university thought the coffin in its display case was empty.

[...] So for many decades it sat in the Nicholson Museum's education room, overshadowed by more famous coffins, never holding pride of place.

But a group of experts recently removed the coffin's lid and changed all of that.

Inside were the remains of a mummy, a noblewoman identified by the ghosted hieroglyphs on the coffin lid as Mer-Neith-it-es.

Academics believe she was a high priestess in 600BC, and that she worked in the Temple of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:26PM (#661169)

    In an overlooked container tucked away in one of another civilization's buildings?

    I bet Ms. Mer-Neith-it-es never thought so.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 01 2018, @04:09PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 01 2018, @04:09PM (#661177) Homepage

      We wuz quanez n sheeit. Nubian spice!

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday April 01 2018, @07:17PM (1 child)

      by Thexalon (636) on Sunday April 01 2018, @07:17PM (#661205)

      Where my body will be in 2618 years: Split up into its component parts a long long time ago. Probably via the "take all the good pieces, then burn the rest" method.

      I'd be far more impressed if anyone bothered to remember my name after all that time.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:33PM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:33PM (#661235) Homepage
        Yeah, I'll be ash, and part of the carbon cycle.
        Your great^100 grandchildren will be breathing me.
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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:38PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:38PM (#661238) Journal

    He added: "Peering into the casket, we were astonished by what we saw: far from residual scraps, the coffin was filled with a miscellany of bones, bandages, beads and other materials."

    He said: "While the remains inside the Mer-Neith-it-es coffin were indeed mixed, the scanner detected two mummified ankles, feet and toes, consistent with a single person; the fused ends of some of the bones suggest the person was at least 30 years old."

    So it was a junk coffin, of left over pieces and parts, floor sweepings, etc? "She worked in the Temple of Sekhmet", apparently not a well liked task master, and shoveled into the shit bin when her time came, and being only 30, it seems her time came sooner than she expected. Maybe even a murder victim?

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    • (Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Monday April 02 2018, @07:13AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday April 02 2018, @07:13AM (#661359) Journal

      You, yourself, frojack, would be lucky to have such an end. Perhaps dumpsters with be looked at as sarcophogai in the future?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:43PM (#661525)

    http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-08/irreplaceable-plant-specimens-destroyed-by-biosecurity-officers/8504944 [abc.net.au]

    Given Australia's track record it could have been cremated

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