November
26
/ 2020
New technologies have allowed scientists to examine the insides of an Egyptian little girl mummy that is almost 2000 years old. This means that scientists can examine the objects interred with a cadaver in a non-invasive way. Using these technologies, they identified an ancient scarab that provides new insights into mummies in death and life. Remarkably, they found that the mummy portrait on the deceased did not match the little girl mummy within the wrappings. This may be a reflection of ancient funerary practices or beliefs about the afterlife, and this is still a mystery. In the 19 th century AD researchers would often take mummies apart when they examined them. Later X-rays were used to examine mummified remains in
