Tagged: mummy

Skrydstrup Woman: Bronze Age Woman Who Came From Abroad

Skrydstrup Woman was found on the Skrydstrup field, one kilometer sourthwest of Vojens in southern Denmark. The discovery was made in 1935. She was buried around 1300 to 1200 BC. She lay in the coffin on a cowhide, clad in a blouse with albow length...

These 3,200-Year-Old Mummified Legs Belonged To Queen Nefertari

– In 1904, archaeologists discovered a pair of mummified legs in the plundered tomb of Queen Nefertari in Egypt’s Valley of the Queens. The 3,200-year old legs were stored at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy and no-one really bothered to investigate them in detail....