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

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

    We wuz quanez n sheeit. Nubian spice!

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