Scientists Discover First Ever Pregnant Mummy
Quite the surprise since experts thought she was a male priest.
Don’t you love when you think you’re sure of something, and then new information reveals the truth as something vastly unexpected? Especially when the discovery makes our eyes widen, and our minds whirl in new ways.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like we’re experiencing plenty of these moments over the last few years — many of which I’ve talked about here or in my newsletters. There also appears to be a growing interest in exploring new perspectives and testing the boundaries of what we think we know, like our history. For instance, recently scientists found something that changes what we thought we knew about mummies.
First-Ever Discovery
Around 200 years ago, the University of Warsaw acquired a mummy believed to be an Egyptian priest named Hor-Djehuty from the first century BCE — at least, that’s what his coffin indicated. In 2016, scientists from the Warsaw Mummy Project in Poland were studying it when Marzena Ożarek-Szilke, anthropologist and archaeologist from the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw, and her husband noticed the mummy isn’t a male.
Not only is the mummy female, but she appears to have died when she was between…
