The mummy of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I was so exquisitely wrapped – decorated with flower garlands and buried with a lifelike face mask – scientists have been hesitant to open up the remains. That is, until now.
This girdle may have had"a magical meaning," and the amulets"each had a function to help the deceased king in the afterlife," Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former minister of antiquities and co-author of the new study published Tuesday in the journalis wearing a piece of jewelry called a girdle. The ancient Egyptians wore jewelry like this around their waists. Some girdles, as this one, have shell amulets on the side," Saleem told Live Science in an email.
The researchers found that priests had repaired the mummy by placing detached limbs back in their place, using resin to help hold parts of the mummy together and rewrapping parts of the mummy with fresh bandages. What killed the pharaoh is unclear."We couldn't find any wounds or disfigurement due to disease to justify the cause of death," Saleem said in the statement.The scans shed light on what the pharaoh looked like when he was alive."Amenhotep I seems to have physically resembled his father [Ahmose I]: He had a narrow chin, a small narrow nose, curly hair, and mildly protruding upper teeth" said Saleem.
"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," Saleem said.Live Science reached out to scholars not involved with the research.
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