Hospital X-ray scans of three ancient relics from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have turned up a surprise – one of the mummies was a daddy.
Museum staff teamed up with Stafford Hospital in a bid to understand how three ancient Egyptians, whose bodies were later mummified, died.
But they were left scratching their heads when a body inside the “daughter of Amunkhau” coffin turned out to be that of a man.
The high-tech scans also failed to solve a 1,700-year-old murder mystery as a ‘metallic’ object in the neck of a Graeco-Roman mummy, which historians thought was an arrowhead, was in fact one of three or four fragments – probably metal – lodged in the base of the skull.
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Lotus
Symbol of Upper Egypt
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The flowering lotus was the symbol of Upper Egypt. The flower is firmly linked with the rising and the setting of the sun, and thus to the sun god and the story of creation. The lotus motif is a frequent feature of temple column architecture.