A CT scan has revealed that a 2,300-year-old Ancient Egyptian mummy has 49 amulets placed within the body.
The team used a computerised tomography (CT) to ‘digitally unwrap’ an undisturbed mummy known as “Golden Boy”.
The ’Golden boy’ mummy dates from 332 to 30 BC and was discovered by archaeologists in 1916 at Nag el-Hassay in southern Egypt. The mummy was placed in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where it has remained unexamined until now.
The CT scan has revealed that the mummy was laid inside two coffins: an outer coffin with a Greek inscription, and an inner wooden sarcophagus. Apart from the heart, the viscera had been removed through an incision, while the brain had been removed through the nose and replaced with resin.