Pharaoh Amenhotep I’s 3,500-year-old mummy was ‘unwrapped’ digitally by scholars thanks to CT scanning technology preserving its integrity
Egyptian researchers have deployed a non-invasive scanning technique to unravel what's inside the ancient mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I.
Yet Amenhotep I’s mummy was actually opened after its mummification and burial – by 21st dynasty restorers, in 11th century BCE. Priests restored and reburied royal mummies from more ancient dynasties, “to repair the damage done by grave robbers,” as described by hieroglyphics. “Amenhotep I seems to have physically resembled his father: he had a narrow chin, a small narrow nose, curly hair, and mildly protruding upper teeth,” Saleem noted.that the mummy suffered from “multiple postmortem injuries likely inflicted by tomb robbers” that have been likely treated by 21st dynasty embalmers.
Saleem also said: “We couldn’t find any wounds or disfigurement due to disease to justify the cause of death, except numerous mutilations post mortem, presumably by grave robbers after his first burial. His entrails had been removed by the first mummifiers, but not his brain or heart.”
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