A new news has come from Egypt that concerns archeology enthusiasts. The sarcophagus of a mummy, which is now open for exhibition in a museum in Cairo but has never been opened, has been displayed digitally for the first time. The mummy belonging to an unnamed boy aged 14-15, thought to be 2,300 years old, contained interesting items.
Scientists used X-rays to see inside the coffin. The rays used not only helped to understand who the mummy belonged to, but also enabled the objects in the coffin to be detected. It seems that the 2,300-year-old corpse was placed in a coffin with a white sandal. Of course there was a reason for that.
The mummy was nicknamed the “golden boy”. So why?
In the examinations made by scientists, they detected gold amulets in exactly 49 places of the 2,300-year-old mummy. There was also a large golden mask on the face of the deceased. Experts nicknamed the little boy the “golden boy” as a natural consequence of this.
*You see the amulets buried with mummy.
According to archaeologists, the mummy, which was examined digitally in Egypt, was buried in accordance with the rituals included in the “Egyptian Book of the Dead”. The fact that the mummy found during excavations in the Egyptian city of Edfu had such a large number of amulets meant that the little boy had high status.
*The sandal that was put in the coffin with the mummy.
B.C. 330 to 330 BC. The causes of death of the young man, who is thought to have lived between the ages of 30, were also examined. The scientists concluded that it was probably natural death. Because there was no problem in the body integrity of the corpse. Other than that, there were no signs suggesting that death might have occurred by an unnatural method.
Scientists, who also examined the mummy’s face, announced that the child had a small nose, a narrow chin and partially open eyes, and an oval face.
So what was the purpose of these 49 amulets and sandals?
Amulets were very common in ancient Egyptian culture and they had a purpose. Similarly, the sandal… So much so that the reason the mummy was buried with sandals was to ensure that the ancient Egyptians would be clean and pious when resurrected, according to the Book of the Dead. So the deceased youth would have appeared cleanly before their gods.
A scarab amulet was placed in the young man’s heart. The purpose of this amulet was to prevent the heart from speaking against the deceased when the Day of Judgment came. Another amulet placed on the tongue allowed the deceased to speak in the hereafter. The amulets placed on other parts of the body were also related to the life of the hereafter.
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