Extracting an Egyptian mummy with wedding clothes and jewelry

The Sun" website published a video of the work of uncovering a wooden coffin and the entry of an Egyptian mummy, for a young girl aged between 15 and 16, under the title "An ancient Egyptian teen mummy was found buried 3600 years ago with wedding clothes and jewelry." The Wonderful Discovery, and the mummy dates back to from the seventeenth Dynasty (circa 1600 BC), by the Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission operating in the area of ​​the Abu El-Naga arm in Luxor headed by Dr. Jose Galan, where the sarcophagus measures 1.75 x 0.33 m, and was made of wood from One piece of sycamore tree and painted with white mortar, while it was painted inside L in red.


According to the researchers, a mummy of a 15/16 year-old woman was found lying on her right side, in poor condition of preservation, and covered with gems that may have been a bridal dowry, as she wore two rings in one of her ears in a spiral shape and wrapped in a thin, perhaps coppery sheet, and some indicate Reports also of the bride's clothes being inside the coffin.


The Sun explained that the jeweled girl probably lived between 1580/1550 BC during the seventeenth dynasty.


 Mohamed Abdel-Badi, head of the Central Department of Antiquities of Upper Egypt, added that the mission found 4 necklaces linked to each other with a ceramic clip on the mummy chest, the first necklace is 70 cm long, and it consists of circular beads decorated in dark blue and light.

The second necklace is 62 cm in length and is made of green faience and glass beads. The third necklace is the most beautiful and has a length of 61 cm. It is made of 74 pieces that combine amethyst, corneli, amber, blue glass, and quartz. They contain scarabs, one of them in the form of the god Horus. And 5 amulets from faience.


 The fourth necklace is made of several chains of faience beads bound together by a ring that combines all threads. On the other side of the cabin, a small sarcophagus sarcophagus was found closed and attached to a chain, inside which there are four wooden ochbeat representations wrapped in linen scrolls, one of which is inscribed with a hieratic script that identifies the name of its owner "Osiris (= deceased (Juhouti", who lived in the seventeenth dynasty) About 1600 BC).


Dr. Gallan pointed out that the mission also reached in the same area a burial well with a pair of leather sandals dyed in bright red, a pair of leather balls tied together with strings, belonging to the seventeenth family, and a pair of cats, a caribou and a rose, all of whom are in a state Good conservation. It is likely that these belonged to a woman who was using them for sports or as part of dancing, according to perceptions of daily life in the tombs of Bani Hassan of the Twelfth Dynasty.