In the 2500-year-old mummy is a ... broomstick

A 2500-year-old Egyptian mummy was first studied by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. They had suddenly discovered a broomstick lying down from the skull to the body of the mummy.

This mummy, named Padihershef , has been on display at Massachusetts hospital since 1823 as proof of a strange medical. It is also one of the first intact mummies to be brought to the US for the study of Egyptian embalming art.

After nearly 200 years of display, the mummy was taken out of the coffin last week for doctors to conduct research. When the coffin was opened, at first there was a layer of white salt covering the mummy, which was the long-term result of the embalming process.

Doctors used moisturizing cotton pads to wipe away the salt that was on the mummy's surface. After completing the process, a black mummy appears. Padihershef mummy is a gift that a Dutch businessman named Jacob Van Lennep gave to the city of Boston.

When the mummy was taken to the port city on April 25, 1823, she was immediately transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital. Back then, Padihershef's mummy was the first mummy to be brought to the United States, so it made Americans curious and eager to see it with their own eyes.

In order to raise money for the hospital, every citizen who registered to watch the mummy must pay 25 cents. However, people in other states also want to see it with their own eyes, however, they cannot travel all the way to Boston just to see a mummy.

The board of directors of the hospital decided to make a tour around the big cities of the United States so that people everywhere could admire this rare artifact with an increase of $ 2.5 per visit.

After making a big buzz in the United States, Padihershef mummies are located in the gallery of the Massachusetts hospital for nearly 200 years. During that time, both the mummy and the coffin were placed in an upright position, resulting in some damage caused by gravity.

During this repair, scientists will switch to mummies and coffins in a horizontal position to reduce the level of damage caused by gravity.

Now scientists are looking for ways to repair the ruins of the ancient coffin and the rotten parts of the linen cloth wrapped around the mummy's body. The whole process is only allowed to last for 3 days, after that, the mummy and the coffin must be returned to the vacuum glass box.

Padihershef mummy is a mummy of a 40-year-old stone chipper found in the graveyard of Thebes - an ancient city on the west bank of the Nile that today is Luxor city, Egypt. No one knows for sure how this man lived and died. Now scientists are gradually answering the mysteries of this man in the process of studying and preserving mummies.

This is the first time the mummy has been taken out of the coffin for the doctors to perform the necessary tests. They were surprised when they found a broomstick in the skull and ran down the upper body of the mummy. This may be the way the embalmed mummies used to fix the head of the mummy.

Through the study of the mummy's skeletal system, scientists realized that the development of bone has stalled, showing that when this man was young, he experienced a very sick illness. Severe, inhibiting bone growth.

Currently, experts are trying to restore the coffin and linen wrapped around the mummy. After the work is completed, the Padihershef mummy will be taken to the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts for a while.