Researchers have digitally opened a 2300-year-old mummy named “Golden Boy”. A computed tomography scan was used to look inside the coffin, allowing digital reconstructions of bone, blood vessels, soft tissues, and more with X-rays.Wonderfully stylized amulets were encountered on the mummy’s body, between the folds of the wrappings and inside the mummy’s body cavity. According to Sahar Salemm, a radiologist at the University of Cairo, Egypt, these ornaments, mostly gold, are consistent with the rituals written in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
It is said that the Golden Boy mummy, which has no organs other than its heart and its teeth are clean, was first discovered in 1916 in a necropolis in Nag el Hassaya, the cemetery of the city of Edfu. It is known that the boy lived during the Ptolemaic period, around 330 BC, possibly having a high status. Cause of death is unknown.
