The Screaming Woman mummy.Credit: Sahar Saleem
Posted on 08/03/2024 10:02:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and overseer of royal works—and reputedly, lover—of the famed queen Hatschepsut (1479–1458 BCE). Beneath Senmut's tomb, they found a separate burial chamber for his mother, Hat-Nufer, and other unidentified relatives.
Here, they made an uncanny discovery: a wooden coffin holding the mummy of an elderly woman, wearing a black wig and two scarab rings in silver and gold. But what struck the archaeologists was the mummy's expression: with the mouth wide open, as if locked in a scream. They dubbed her the "Screaming Woman."
Now, approximately 2,500 years after her burial, researchers from Egypt have used the most advanced scientific techniques to examine the Screaming Woman and learn about her life and death. The results are published in Frontiers in Medicine...
Until 1998, the Screaming Woman had been kept at Kasr Al Ainy School of Medicine in Cairo, where in the 1920s and 1930s researchers studied many royal mummies, including Tutankhamun. Subsequently, she was moved to the Cairo Egyptian Museum at the request of the Ministry of Antiquities. Ever since 1935, the mummy's coffin and rings have been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
In the new study, Saleem used CT scans to "virtually dissect" the mummy and estimate her age, identify pathologies, and state of preservation.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
The Screaming Woman mummy.Credit: Sahar Saleem
I hate screaming mummies.
I was on a screaming woman flight once. If you think crying baby flights are bad, you have no idea.
Eventually an angel appeared and gave the woman a valium.
Why the expression? Simple. She was buried next to her son in law and spent the last few thousand years letting him know all the the reasons he’s not good enough for her daughter.
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Poor woman. She was boxing a biological male.
lol. And both of them still vote in the US.
Hey, cut her some slack, maybe she was buried alive. ;^)
There’s nothin’ new under the hot Egyptian sun.
That should be enough to get her wrapped up in linen strips with a pomegranate stuffed in her big fat mouth.
I was on a screaming woman once
Her cause of death was, she got trampled during an after-Festival of Ptah sale.
I guess that is one way to deal with a screaming woman.
There wouldn’t be much of a movie business if it weren’t for the horror genre.
I hate clowns. I dislike screaming mummies. :-)
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