Egyptian scientists for the first time recreated a three-dimensional model of Mummy Pharaoh Amenhotep I using three-dimensional computer tomography. Up to this point, the well-preserved mummy remained untouched for three thousand years from the date of its reburial after four centuries after the initial mummification. This is reported in the article published in the Frontiers in Medicine magazine.
researchers disclosed that Amenhotep I at the time of death was about 35 years. Its growth is about 169 centimeters, and Pharaoh physically reminded his father: a narrow chin, a small narrow nose, curly hair and slightly protruding top teeth. It is caught 30 amulets and a golden belt with beads. Scientists did not find signs of violent RAS or changes related to any disease, but numerous posthumous injuries were revealed due to tomb robbers. Also, Mummy remained brain and heart.
Initially, archaeologists believed that the priests of the XI century (XXI dynasty) BC was gathered to re-use the funeral inventory used for the burial of Pharaohs of a later time. However, it turned out that the goal was not a reburial in itself, but the correction of damage caused by robbers.
Mummy Amenhotep I was discovered in 1881 among other reburied Mumiy Pharaohs on the Archaeological site Deir-El Bakhri in the south of Egypt. The second pharaoh of the XVIII Dynasty of Egypt (after his father Yahmos I, who erected Gixos and reunited Egypt), Amenhotep Rules from about 1525 to 1504 to our era.