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An ancient Egyptian mummy who was found wearing a black wig and had a “screaming” face may have died wailing in pain around 3,000 years ago, scientists believe.
It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an ...
The mummy’s “screaming facial expression” could be read as a cadaveric spasm, a rare form of muscular stiffening associated with violent deaths, implying that the woman died screaming from ...
The examination of her mummy shows that she suffered a head wound prior to her death which has the characteristics of a wound sustained when falling backwards. The body was badly damaged by tomb robbers. Her arms are missing, likely having been broken off in antiquity. [2] In 2020 her mummy was CT scanned. She is estimated to have died at about ...
Djedmaatesankh was an Egyptian woman from the city of Thebes (modern Luxor) who died in the middle of the 9th century B.C. She was an ordinary middle-class woman and musician. [ 1 ] Her cartonnage coffin is thought to have been buried on the west bank of the Nile about 2,850 years ago. [ 2 ]
Lady Rai (c. 1570/1560 BC – 1530 BC) was an ancient Egyptian woman of the early 18th Dynasty who served as nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari (1562–1495 BC). [1] Her mummified remains were discovered in a Theban tomb in 1881 and it is estimated that she was about 30–40 years old when she died around 1530 BC. [2]
Dubbed the "Screaming Woman" thanks to a jaw locked in a perpetual twisted bellow, the mummy was discovered in 1935 during an archeological expedition led by the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
Takabuti was an ancient Egyptian married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years. She lived in the Egyptian city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, c. 660 BC. [1] Her mummified body and mummy case are in the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [2]