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Mummy 1770

Much less in the public eye was the controversy about Mummy 1770. The museum is unsure how or from whom it received the mummy, only that it did so in 1896. It wasn’t naked. It had not been unwrapped by Lord Lognsberry or at any champagne and canapés event. X-rays suggested that it was the body of a girl about 13 years old and that her legs had been amputated. It was thought by Egyptologists to have been from the Hawara excavation site in central Egypt. It was thought to be from the Hellenistic or Roman era.

In 1975, the museum decided to unwrap the mummy. They found the strangest things. There was a pair of decorated gold nipple covers, the sort used for females. There was an artificial phallus of the sort used when wrapping deceased males. Did the embalmers not know and if so why not?  When researchers at the museum carbon dated bone pieces and pieces of the linen wrappings they found extraordinarily different dates. The bones seemed to be from about 1000 B.C. while the linen wrappings appeared to be from about A.D. 300, a difference of about 1300 years.