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

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:16PM   
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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• Not a complete mummy Not a complete mummy (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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• Re:Not a complete mummy (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?

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