The mummy of Amenhotep I, who reigned over Egypt more than three millennia, has been digitally unveiled. The scanner reveals that, in antiquity, it had already been restored after injuries inflicted by falling plumbing.
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Egyptologists had previously forbidden to unveil the embalmed body of Amenhotep i er , so as not to degrade this mummy with the delicate mask, discovered in 1881. It is now done. , numerically, thanks to a three-dimensional scanner. Like Sahar Salem and Zahi Hawass L ‘ explain in Frontiers of Medicine of December 28, 2021,
“amenhotep I er seems to have looked physically like his father: he had a narrow chin and nose, curly hair and slightly highlights”.
Second Pharaoh of the Egyptian dynasty XVIII, he reigned from 1525 to 1504 about before the Christian era. Five centuries after his burial, Amon priests had restored and re-entered the royal mummies of previous dynasties. Saleem and Hawass had put forward the hypothesis that these interventions were intended to reuse the royal funeral material, but they now refute it themselves: “We show that at least for Amenhotep I er the priests of The XXI E Dynasty repaired the wounds inflicted by the plumbing sprouts, gave his mummy his glory of yesteryear and have retained in place the beautiful jewels and amulets, “says Sahar Saleem.