The golden tokens and footwear were intended to ease the body’s transition into the afterlife.
CT scans of the mummy revealed the boy’s skeleton and amuluts .Over a century ago, the mummy of a teenage boy was found in Nag el-Hassay, Egypt. The body remains wrapped to this day, but a team of researchers just used CT scanning to peer through the linens to find 49 amulets on and inside the boy’s body.
The boy’s social class was deduced from his ornate burial—the team refers to the remains as the “Golden boy mummy” for its gilded face mask.
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