Months later customs agents discovered the coffin stashed at the home of a Brooklyn antiquities dealer. Looters sawed this sarcophagus into four pieces and shipped it by airmail to the United States, where an antiques restorer put it back together. Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is examining her inner sarcophagus, one of three wooden cases that, nested like Russian dolls, once cradled her mummified body, the odor of which lingers in the coffin.
The Egyptian noblewoman has been dead some 2,600 years. By reading it aloud, I fulfill her wish to be remembered in the afterlife.” “And here is her name and title: Shesep-amun-tayesher, Mistress of the House. As her gaze glides down the victim’s body, painted on the lid of her coffin, she points out a fresh cut across the upper thighs, and symbols of the god Amun, an ibis, and magic spells from the Book of the Dead. “Still in remarkable condition … extremely well preserved,” the professor murmurs. The lady in the striped wig with the staring eyes lies on a brightly lit table as the professor hovers a palm’s breadth from her face. This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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