The “screaming mummy”, probably Prince Pentawer, who orchestrated a plot to kills his fa
The “screaming mummy”, probably Prince Pentawer, who orchestrated a plot to kills his father, Ramesses III, and then killed himself. His body wasn’t embalmed, and his body was allowed to naturally mummify. His facial muscles are stretched to make it look like is was screaming; he may have died screaming, or his face may have been positioned this way by those who dealt with the body. He was wrapped in sheepskin (considered ritually impure by the Egyptians) and dumped in a in a tomb at Deir el-Bahari, among a cache of other mummies. -- source link
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