"This fact that Amenhotep I's mummy had never been unwrapped in modern times gave us a unique opportunity: not just to study how he had originally been mummified and buried, but also how he had been treated and reburied twice, centuries after his death, by High Priests of Amun," said Sahar Saleem of Cairo University, the radiologist of the Egyptian Mummy Project, who co-authored the paper with Zahi Hawass, former minister of antiquities of Egypt. Instead, Amenhotep I's mummy seems to have been lovingly restored after being damaged by tomb robbers.
In the process, the authors disproved their own hypothesis that those who restored the mummy sometime during the 21st dynasty (1069 to 945 BCE) did so in order to reuse the royal burial equipment for later pharaohs. Now, scientists have succeeded in "virtually unwrapping" the mummy of Amenhotep I, providing us with our first look inside, according to a paper published last week in the journal Frontiers in Medicine. His mummy, first discovered in 1881, has never been opened because conservators were reluctant to damage something that had survived in such pristine condition. Today: Researchers used cutting-edge imaging to "virtually wrap" the mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I.Īmenhotep I was an Egyptian pharaoh best known for building numerous temples and inspiring the formation of a funerary cult after his death. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way.
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