Find strange wrap in Egyptian mummies

The biggest surprise came from an autopsy of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy that scientists discovered a small envelope in the abdomen, believed to be a mummy of a bird.

Egyptian mummy named Pa-Ib from 2000 BC, exhibiting in the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1890 has recently been transferred to Quinnipiac University so that scientists can study with technology high.

The researchers carefully wrapped the mummy and placed it in a modern coffin provided by local funerals and transporters in a hearse guarded carefully by the police.

Kathy Maher, Barnum museum executive, is examining the mummy

Scientists used an CT scanner that was evaluated eight times better than the one used for this mummy in 2006. As a result, they could see details never seen. in the mummy.

Tests have shown the small wrap inside the mummy belly cavity. An archaeologist speculates that this could be a mummified bird, this finding has attracted researchers to Egypt.

The experiment was conducted in order to find out the answer to whether to put a bird in the mummy is a request to the gods to help the dead woman have a place in the afterlife.

Professor Ronald Beckett, director of the Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac, said: 'There will be new perspectives on this mummy. Every mummy has a story to tell us, every information gives us an understanding of ancient Egyptian society . '

Dr. Corcoran said, she only knew two other mummies marinated with birds, one at the J. Paul Getty Museum in California and one in Switzerland. She said that birds such as falcon and stork have a connection with the Egyptian god Thoth - the god has an influence on the final judgment of death. 'He is one of the gods who decides whether someone can step into eternal life after death,' Getty said.

The mummy is preparing to be put into the scanner

According to Colleen Manassa, assistant professor of Egyptian studies at Yale University, the probability of birds being mummified inside human mummies is 'unlikely' if the mummy is 4,000 years old because Egypt does not embalm. objects in that time period. Manassa said: 'Animal sacrifices are not carried out at temples'.

Colleen Manassa said that the mummy age may be younger than initially determined. She said a museum in Egypt preserved a baboon that was marinated and wrapped, and placed in a mummy body of a woman about 3,000 years ago.

Professor Beckett said that the newly discovered wrappers may have been the mummy's organs that were taken care of and then re-placed the mummy so that the flock could be used in the afterlife.