New Scans Reveal 2,300-Year-Old Mummy Boy and His Gold Treasures
CT scans of the mummy revealed the boy’s skeleton and amuluts (white spots on rightmost scan).Image: SN Saleem, SA Seddik, M el-HalwagyOver a century ago, the mummy of a teenage boy was found in Nag el-Hassay, Egypt. The body remains wrapped to this day, but a team of researchers just used CT scanning to peer through the linens to find 49 amulets on and inside the boy’s body.The mummy was in a Ptolemaic cemetery about 500 miles south of Cairo, making the remains about 2,300 years old. The CT scans the team conducted also…