The Mummy Iufenamun On Display

EDINBURGH (GaeaTimes.com)-The Mummy of Rameses II’s priest Iufenamun is said to be kept on display for all general public at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. The mummy has been retrieved from the priest’s coffin which contains his body parts and his face. The curators and conservators at the Royal Museum of Scotland had been taking special care of the mummy as they went ahead to put together all pieces to carve out his face.

Lynn McLean who happens to be the chief of the paper and textile conservation for the Royal museum told the media that among all other curator works, handling the mummy is seemingly the most challenging task of all. She said that it took more than 100 years for the Royal Museum to bring together the pieces of Iufenamun. The display of the mummy is said to be one of the rarest incidents of all and finds ground with the fact that the identity of the mummy has always been latent and only revealed to the extreme research that includes the archaeologists and curators. In this regard Bill Manley who happens to be a National Museum research associate has been working on the mummy by studying its hieroglyphics that dates back to centuries. The clues that he was able to retrieve was all derived from the carvings and scriptures present on the coffin all wrapped in gold.

Reportedly, the remains of the mummy were revealed through CT scans which had the shapes of his skeleton and skull. The reports were sent over to the University Of Dundee where forensic anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson made further studies upon the mummy by employing stereo lithography, which replicated the mummy skull for curators to work upon.