Researchers unearth new mummification methods used for Pharaoh Amenhotep I whose rule dates again to the 1500s BC.
Egypt has digitally “unwrapped” the mum of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets and techniques for the primary time because it was found in 1881 with out disturbing his funerary masks.
Because of the superior digital 3D imagery, researchers unearthed new mummification methods used for the pharaoh, who dominated from 1525 to 1504 BC.
The analysis was led by Sahar Saleem, a professor of radiology at Cairo College, and famend Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, a former antiquities minister, the tourism and antiquities ministry stated in a press release on Tuesday.
“Saleem and Hawass used superior X-ray expertise, CT [computed tomography] scanning, in addition to superior laptop software program packages to digitally unwrap the mum of Amenhotep I in a protected non-invasive technique with out the necessity to contact the mum,” it added.
“The Egyptian examine revealed for the primary time the face of King Amenhotep I, his age, well being situation, along with many secrets and techniques in regards to the mummy’s distinctive mummification and reburial.”
Evaluation confirmed Amenhotep I used to be the primary pharaoh to be mummified with arms crossed and the final to not have had his mind faraway from the cranium.
The tomography scan additionally revealed that the pharaoh, who performed a number of army campaigns throughout his 21-year rule, had died on the age of 35, apparently of damage or sickness.
The mother, found in Luxor, southern Egypt, is the one one to not have had its tight bands unrolled by archaeologists, so as to protect the masks and garlands of flowers that encompass it like hair.
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