Egyptian researchers find golden amulets inside 2,300-year-old mummy through "digital unwrapping"


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  • Wednesday, 25 Jan 2023

CAIRO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian researchers have discovered a total of 49 amulets on and inside the body of a 2,300-year-old mummy, some of which were made of gold, said the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Tuesday.

The fully wrapped mummy, belonging to a 15-year-old boy buried in a late Ptolemaic cemetery at around 300 BC, was found in Edfu city in Aswan province, southern Egypt, in 1916 and has been stored at Cairo's Egyptian Museum ever since, said the statement.

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