The first-ever Egyptian mummy of a young pregnant woman has been discovered by scientists from Warsaw University.
The discovery was made as part of the Warsaw Mummy Project of Warsaw University, where the research has been underway since 2015. During the research, scientists performed a total of 250,000 CT scans.
The mummy of the pregnant woman was the last of the analyzed mummies and the discovery extended the research period.
"This mummy has already changed sex three times, because when she came to Warsaw in 1826, it was originally thought that it was a female mummy," Dr. Wojciech Ejsmond, an archaeologist from the Polish Academy of Sciences told Polish private broadcaster TVN24.
Hor-Jehuti
"Then, in the 1920s, a hieroglyphic inscription was read on the sarcophagus, where it was written that it was a mummy of a man, a priest named Hor-Jehuti, who lived in the 1st century BC," Dr. Ejsmond added.
In 2016, the experts from the Warsaw Mummy Project found out that the mummy attributed to the priest Hor-Djehuti in fact conceals a woman's body.
It was possible thanks to the use of a modern CT scanner, because the mummy is still complete - bandages were not taken down for research purposes. Researchers began to analyze CT scans and X-ray images in greater depth.
Eventually, it was possible to see the entire fetus in more detail.
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