Who is the woman dubbed as “The Screaming Mummy”?

The Screaming Mummy Story

Controversy about Pharaonic civilization secrets is uninterrupted and does not end, some of them have been discovered but many have not. The most prominent of these riddles are related to mummies especially kings' and princes’ mummies such as Tutankhamun, who died in mysterious conditions the American company Amazon produced a documentary mentioned that 22 archaeologists who participated in the discovery of his tomb died in Mysterious conditions within seven years. We highlight here mummies displayed now at The Egyptian Museum that have become famous in recent times in our Egypt luxury tours as the screaming mummies specifically the mummies of a young man and another woman who was dead while they were screaming and the circumstances of their death are very strange.

The screaming mummies were discovered in 1881 in a hidden place in Deir al-Bahari in Luxor by Gaston Maspero you will listen to her story in our guided Luxor day tours. It is known that priests in the era of the Pharaohs. They used to hide the mummies of kings and Statesmen in hard-to-reach places so that thieves could not reach them. Also Because of A lot of talk about these mummies, archaeologists decided to work on Solving the mystery of their death.

Who is the screaming mummy?

Torment and pain are clear on her features, the embalming was very strange, her head tilted towards the right as well and her mouth open she had signs of pain and torture as well as the legs wrapped on each other, it was usual that during the embalming, the mouth used to be closed and the body straight. After Searching, they found a coil of linen containing some information about this mysterious woman. Called Mert Amon, the daughter of King Sknan Ra who fought the Hyksos, the mummy returns to the seventeenth family in 3500 BC. After using X-rays to reveal the mummy, they knew she was in the sixth decade of life. She was suffering from atherosclerosis, which led to blood clots and heart muscle damage, she cried out loudly and died. No one discovered her death for several hours, which led to muscle and joint stiffness. Embalmers could not straighten the body. We recommend joining our Egypt tour packages to learn more myths about the Egyptian attractions.

The Mummy of the Screaming Young Man

The mystery of the mummy does not lie only in the shape of the body of this young man. Still, the mummy was not wrapped in linen like the rest of the mummified mummies. Still, with impure goat skin, which is a sign of the deceased’s entry into Hell because the goats are the enemies of the sun god, this indicates that he committed a great sin in his life likewise, the priest did not remove the intestines from his stomach before embalming, coffin in which he was placed was a very ordinary and was not decorated. These signs indicate a contempt for the corpse of this young man. Our tour guide will tell you the story of the mummy during our guided Egypt Easter tours while you celebrate the Easter Holiday and explore Egypt Day tours' hidden gems.

What is the reason for doing all this in the body of this young man?

This body was buried next to the tomb of Ramses III, this was an important part of solving the mystery of this mummy. Analysis of the corpse of King Ramses III using X-rays, it is believed that he was killed with a pointed dagger. But how was he killed? This is what the women’s conspiracy papyrus answers.

King Ramses III was married to two women and wrote in his will that his son, Ramses IV, from his first wife would rule the country after him, so his second wife Queen T was angry because she wanted her son Bentkur, to be the king. She plotted to kill the King with the help of a group of women in the royal palace, some soldiers, and magicians, they gathered and attacked the royal palace, and then they killed the king. It was mentioned in the papyrus that the king died due to the capsizing of the royal boat in water, it was known that they could not mention in any document that the king was killed, upon analyzing the DNA of the corpses of the young man, it was a great surprise that he was Prince Bentkur, the son of King Ramses III from his second wife, they also found the marks of a rope on his neck. Perhaps they discovered that he was the one who killed his father, King Ramses III, and therefore they punished him with the death penalty he was screaming during the execution. Therefore, they despised his corpse and placed it in the skin of a goat. After King Ramesses IV, the son of the first wife, assumed power, he ordered the execution and imprisonment of all those related to the killing of his father.

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