Egyptian mummies forgot the tools in the dead man's brain

Scientists found the tools that ancient Egyptians used to brainwash dead people in a female mummy dating back to about 2,400 years.

The brainwashing tool, found by the research group of the University of Dubrava in Croatia, is about 8cm long. The old man drilled a hole in the sieve bone (near the nose) and stuffed the tool into the dead man's brain through that hole. The team said that it was possible that a mummified man had forgotten the tool in the dead man's brain, or the broken tool during the process of brainwashing, Livescience reported.

The mummy studied by the University of Dubrava is on display in the Croatian Archaeological Museum. That is the body of a woman about 40 years old. People took the body to Croatia in the 19th century. Today nobody knows where it was once in Egypt and why the woman died.

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Cropped layer of skull of mummy in Croatian Archaeological Museum.

Removing the brain from the skull is a necessary procedure in the process of embalming the Egyptians. A Greek writer from the 5th century BC described the ancient Egyptian mummification process as follows:

"After the deal, relatives of the dead go out. The mummies stay behind to do their job. If they do the work according to the perfect procedure, they have to brainwash through the nostrils with a clincher and pump some drugs into the skull ".

However, the object the scientists found in the mummy skull was not a clincher but a wooden stick. The team guessed that the old people used wooden sticks because they didn't have much money.

"Everyone knows embalming is a common practice in ancient Egyptian civilization. But the ancient people had to invest a lot of time and money in the process of embalming their bodies. So a part of Egyptians she didn't have enough money to buy the items required by the mummified group. Using wooden sticks instead of iron hooks is one of the ways to reduce the costs of the poor, " the research team argues.