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Mummy of Ancient Egyptian REPORT

Pharaoh found, and why it baes experts

Historians have a new mystery to solve

D Aayana Shrestha

Experts have discovered many mummified bod- could have died during a fight or hunting, or he
ies of ancient Egyptian pharaohs so, why is this could have been killed by someone who needed
one any different? to get it over with fast. He could’ve died a natural
death in a place where natron wasn’t easily found
The answer doesn’t lie in the how, but in how this so workers may have tried their best to get his
mummy came to be. body back to the Nile river valley as fast as they
could, but the body had been lying there for too
The ancient Egyptians worshiped their pharaohs long so it started deteriorating.
as if they were gods. They were treated with great
care, so when one died, the body was mummified Whatever the reason may have been, archeolo-
leisurely, and the workers took their work seri- gists still have lots to discover about the mummy
ously. Seems like, for this young pharaoh, that that got them scratching their heads.
wasn’t the case.

The tomb was discovered by Howard Carter, a
British archeologist who was almost out of a job,
was eagerly waiting to discover something that
would give him a break as an archeologist. The
discovery of the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb
that was found on November 4th, 1922 did that
for him

The previous mummies have flown over the ra-
dar, because the mummification process seemed
to have been done well, and fitting for a pharaoh.
This one was done more like what happened to
the bodies of Egyptians that were poor.

The wrapping of the linen was done hastily, the
heart is missing or either disguised underneath
all that resin, the body was already deteriorating,
which is all very unusual for pharaoh mummifi-
cation.

Historians have many theories on why the mum- What went wrong? e massive dierence between this,
mification was of such bad quality. Tutankhamun and other mummied royals.