If the recent identification of her mummy ( see below ) is correct, however, the medical evidence would indicate that she suffered from diabetes and died from bone cancer which had spread throughout her body while she was in her fifties.

In October 2009 the Foundation For the Future announced that Pääbo had been awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize for his work isolating and sequencing ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with a 2, 400-year-old mummy.

The team claimed that the mummy they examined was damaged in a way suggesting the body had been deliberately desecrated in antiquity.

The broken-off bent forearm found near the mummy, which had been proposed to have belonged to " The Younger Lady " mummy, was conclusively shown not to actually belong to it.

A 1977 study showed that an ochronotic Egyptian mummy had probably suffered from alkaptonuria.

Most often the story pertained to some sort of human or creature, such as a mummy, prehistoric creature and occasionally a human who had been frozen in a block of ice ( ex.

Make-up artist Jack Pierce had studied photos of Seti I's mummy to design Imhotep, though perhaps notably, Karloff looked nothing like the mummy of Seti I in the film, instead bearing a resemblance to the mummy of Ramesses III.

This led Davis to conclude he had found the mummy of queen Tiye and he therefore published his account of the discovery as The Tomb of Queen Tiyi.

For these reasons the correctness of the age estimates was repeatedly called into question .< ref > Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) p. 202 </ ref >< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > The Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 49 </ ref > This opinion found support in the analysis of the skeletal remains which had indicated an age of death around 35 years ( based on dentition ) or even later ( based on anthropological standards and new X-rays of the long bones ).< ref > Reeves, C. N, < cite > Akhenaten, Egypt's False Prophet </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 2001 ) p. 84 </ ref > Some examinations placed the mummy at 20 – 25 years at death, while others assessed the mummy as 35 years.

The most notable of these usurpations are the mummy bands and the canopic coffins .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > The Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 60 </ ref > It has also been noted that the features of the canopic stoppers and the second coffin do not resemble those of Tutankhamen and it has been suggested that these too had originally been intended for Akhenaten's co-regent .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Akhenaten, Egypt's False Prophet </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 2001 ) p. 179 </ ref >

This led to speculation that the mummy may have had some connection to either the Liber Linteus or the Etruscans.

Summer 2005 .</ ref > This murder theory was not accepted by all scholars, and more detailed CT-scans of the mummy undertaken by National Geographic ( published in late 2005 ) suggested that Tutankhamun did not die from a blow to his head as Brier had theorized.

Master Li also reveals the mummy in Liu Sheng's tomb had the wrong color wrappings, imperial yellow instead of mourning white, meaning that the mummy was not that of Liu Sheng.

It is the best preserved Moche mummy found to date and the elaborate tomb that housed her had unprecedented decoration.

The mummy of Thutmose I was thought to be lost, but Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, largely on the strength of familial resemblance to the mummies of Thutmose II and Thutmose III, believed he had found his mummy in the otherwise unlabelled mummy # 5283.

However, in 2007, Dr. Zahi Hawass announced that the mummy which was previously thought to be Thutmose I that of a thirty year old man who had died as a result of an arrow wound to the chest.

The bracelet had previously been worn by the now-vanished mummy.

" He was about 50 years old when he died and his mummy had suffered damage to its nose, which is missing.

A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold ( ice mummies ), very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.

At the same time Hatshepsut's mummy might have been moved into the tomb of her wet nurse, Sitre-Re, in KV60.

In the Royal Mummy Cache at DB320, an ivory canopic coffer was found that was inscribed with the name of Hatshepsut and contained a mummified liver or spleen as well as the tooth that now has been found to fit the second mummy in the wet nurse's tomb.

There are many theories regarding her death and burial but, to date, the mummy of this famous queen has not been found or identified.

On June 9, 2003, archaeologist Joann Fletcher, a specialist in ancient hair from the University of York in England, announced that Nefertiti's mummy may have been one of the anonymous mummies stored in tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings known as " the Younger Lady ".

Dr. Fletcher led an expedition funded by the Discovery Channel to examine what they believed to have been Nefertiti's mummy.

During the last verse McCartney ad-libs, " Get back Loretta / You've been singing on the roof again !/... Your mummy doesn't like that .../ Oh no ... she gets angry / She's gonna have you arrested!

Therefore, it has been assumed for a long time that they were produced during the lifetime of their subjects and displayed as " salon paintings " within their houses, to be added to their mummy wrapping after their death.

The religious meaning of mummy portraits has not, so far, been fully explained, nor have associated grave rites.

Several reasons for the decline of the mummy portrait have been suggested ; no single reason should probably be isolated, rather, they should be seen as operating together.

The latter belong to the very final phase of mummy portraits, and have only been noted on a few mummy wrappings.

A direct link has been suggested, but it should be kept in mind that the mummy portraits represent only a small part of a much wider Graeco-Roman tradition, the whole of which later bore an influence on Late Antique and Byzantine Art.

Fragments of his play Achilles were said to have been discovered in the wrappings of a mummy in the 1990s

The cause of his death was determined, in 2006, to have been colorectal cancer ( mucinous adenocarcinoma type with mutation in the KRas gene ), by examination of his mummy.

Seti's mummy itself was not discovered until 1881, in the mummy cache ( tomb DB320 ) at Deir el-Bahri, and has since been kept at the Cairo Museum.

From an examination of Seti's extremely well-preserved mummy, Seti I appears to have been less than forty years old when he died unexpectedly.

The voices of the graveyard ghosts minus the deaf old man, the singing busts, and the mummy were re-recorded with new singers ( the mummy has since been replaced with a new voice ), and the audio tracks now seem to come from the singer when near them.

In a more recent research effort led by Hawass, the mummy known as " The Younger Lady " was put through CT scan analysis.

When Tintin and Haddock intercept the ship, Tintin encounters Chiquito and learns Calculus is to be put to death for wearing the bracelet belonging to the Inca mummy.

Gutfreund, physically the largest of the hostages, was bound to a chair ( Groussard describes him as being tied up like a mummy ); the rest were lined up four apiece on the two beds in Springer and Shapira's room, and bound at the wrists and ankles and then to each other.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead lists a spell which when spoken over a gold amulet hung around the mummy's neck, ensures that the mummy would regain use of its spine and be able to sit up.

The reports sum up the issue by saying that " the proof that Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye are the parents of KV55, combined with this anthropological and archaeological evidence, indicates that the mummy in KV55 is almost certainly Akhenaten ".

As punishment for Loveless ' foolishness, Set transports Loveless ' soul to a dead mummy, just before the ClueFinders show up to stop Set.

Xander shows up and insists that if she must feed on anyone, it should be him ; despite Ampata's feelings for him, she is quickly deteriorating back into a mummy, and is willing to kill him to remain alive.

In the syncretic atmosphere of Late Antiquity, Agathodaemon ( Koine Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων ) could be bound up with Egyptian bringers of security and good fortune: a gem carved with magic emblems bears the images of Serapis with crocodile, sun-lion and Osiris mummy surrounded by the lion-headed snake Cnum – Agathodaemon – Aion, with Harpocrates on the reverse.

In the prologue of " Yerba bruja ", Corretjer states it was not his intent to " dig up a mummy " but to bring to light " the splendor of the indigenous imagination that lives on in our own.

Holding up his ring, he commands the mummy to activate and orders it to pursue them.

The mummy ended up in Meeteetse, Wyoming, at a local drug store where it was shown as an attraction for several years before it was bought by Ivan T. Goodman, a Casper, Wyoming businessman.

Until the mummy shows up again, it will be impossible to know if the mummy is real.

Mummyman, a reanimated mummy, has super-strength and can stretch his wrappings indefinitely, often using them to tie up the Drak Pack.

The sound of approaching bombers catches the attention of a child ( voiced by a young Harry Waters ), who states, " Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky ".

For example, after his death, Henry's corpse ends up in a " mummy factory " ( during the Egyptian craze of the early 1900s, natives often took modern corpses and made them into mummies for sale to gullible tourists ).