They ‘unwrap’ an Egyptian mummy with a scanner and discover the amulets that protected it

SN SALEEM, SA SEDDIK / M EL-HALWAGY

The ‘Golden Boy’ lived 2,300 years ago, had a high social level and died in adolescence, according to a study led by a researcher from the Cairo Medical School.

For more than a century it has been a mummy like any other, one of the countless that are kept in the deposits of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It was discovered in 1916, in perfect condition, in a necropolis in southern Egypt, in Nag el-Hassay, which was used between 332 and 30 BC. Not being a character im

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