Egypt Mummy Has Sex Changed

[Adsos Letter]

Source: National Geographic

The remains of the Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, and two other ancient Egyptian mummies have been scanned at North Shore University Hospital in New York.

The mummies range in age from more than 3,000 years old to just over 1700 years old.

They were brought from Brooklyn Museum for screening.

SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Bleiberg, Brooklyn Museum: "We hope to discover such things as the history of disease, to verify gender of the mummies, that have not been unwrapped and to perhaps find the cause of death, and also the age of death."

But what the new scan results showed turned out to be much more than that.

The mummy labeled Lady Hor in fact turns out to be a man.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090626-us-mummies-video-ap.html

Video at link

[XemaSab]

1. So it's a man Hor?

:hide:

[Adsos Letter]

3. I see the 114* my wife reported when she went through Redding yesterday

has not affected your wit... :D :hi:

It was 110* down here today. :scared:

[jberryhill]

4. Damn! I just hate it when a Lady Hor turns out to be a Man Hor /nt

[On the Road]

12. Hahahahahahha

:rofl:

That was a good one.

[Hannah Bell]

2. i thought the mummy had had a sex change. that would be interesting.

[Adsos Letter]

5. I went with the article headline; I admit it is deceptive.

:hi:

[peacefreak]

6. Dude looks like a lady

Que Steve Tyler, please.

[Stevenmarc]

7. Well Lady Hor was his drag name

[Berry Cool]

8. Who you callin' a Hor?

[jberryhill]

15. Well, She Wasn't A "Lady" Then, Either /nt

[bklyncowgirl]

9. CT scans have been giving quite a bit of information on mummies--and changing identifications.

Take the case of the mummy formerly known as KV60 B or less charitably "The Fat Lady of KV 60" who turned out to be none other than the female Pharoah Hatshepsut. She appears to have died at around age 50 from natural causes. She was suffering from cancer, possibly diabetes and had an abcess in her mouth from an infected tooth.

Another mummy, once believed to be that of her father, Thutmose I, turned out to be that of a much younger man, though closely related to Hatshepsut and the rest of her family, who died from an arrow wound.

Many of the royal mummy identifications have always been suspect. After the tombs were robbed priests went in to try and collect the bodies of deceased royalty, rewrapped and in some cases labled them then deposited in group burials. Understandably they made a few mistates. It will be interesting to see if modern testing can clean up any of the confusion.

[zbdent]

10. enough with the Ann Coulter threads ...

[Mother Of Four]

14. ....

:rofl:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I'm wondering

if they simply placed a man's body in a woman's coffin--perhaps that's all they had, or they were trying to hide the man's remains, or it was done centuries later after a desicration.

[Robb]

13. That's not mummy! It's DADDY!!!

:yoiks: