Finding a New Mummy

Finding a New MummyConstant Wonder • Season 1, Episode 10, Segment 2

Dec 27, 2021 • 22m

By the time they get to modern scientists, most mummies don't have all the protective layers that they were originally buried with. So, it was exciting to find the largely in-tact Mer-Neith-itis, who'd been overlooked for more than a century after her discovery. Guest: Jamie Fraser, Curator for the Ancient Levant and Anatolia at the British Museum in London

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