An Egyptian study reveals for the first time the secrets of the mummification of the mummy of King Amenhotep1
A recent Egyptian study published on December 28, 2021 in the famous journal Frontiers in Medicine reveals for the first time the face and age of the mummy of King Grant I and many of the secrets of embalming and reburial of the mummy.
Endowed the first is the son of King Ahmose , the conqueror of the HyKsos, who took the throne of Egypt after his father and ruled the country for twenty – one years in the time period from (1525 to 1504 BC during the reign of the 18 th Dynasty). the mummy of King Amenhotep I was found in 1881 in the cache of the royal monastery of the sea In the Egyptian city of luxor, where the priests of the twenty- first dynasty reburied and hid many of the mummies of many kings and princes to protect them from tomb thieves Unwinding the coils in the modern era, in order to preserve the beauty of the mummy covered with royal mask, until it was revealed by a study recently conducted by archeaologist Dr Zahi Hawass and Dr Sahar Selim .Professor of CT scan at the faculty of Medicine , cairo University and expert in archaeological radiology.
The two Egyptian scientists used modern techniques of tomography to remove the coils from the mummy of King Amenhotep 1, by default , without affecting the mummy King Amenhotep1 , at the time of his death was 35 years old.
It is worth nothing that Dr .Zahi Hawass and Dr. Sahar Selim used CT scans to examine forty Royal Mummies from the New Kingdom in the Royal Mummies Project of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities , which began in 2005 and continues until now.
The mummy of King Amenhotep1 is the icon for the procession of the royal mummies , which was transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the Museum of Civilization in Fustat in early April of this year.
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Fatma Salem
