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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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  • (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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