Emory museum mummy doesn't belong to Ramses I
Egypt, History, 1/8/2001

Giza Antiquities Director Zahi Hawas ruled out that one of the mummies in the Emory Museum in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States can not belong to King Ramses I or any of the l9th Dynasty Kings.

Some researchers at the Emory University in Georgia, USA, announced this week that they are using CAT scan to detect the secrets of some ancient mummies, and that after studying 10 mummies in the Emory Museum, it turned out that one of these mummies belongs to King Ramses I, founder of the 19th Dynasty, who ruled Egypt from 1292 to 1290 BC. Commenting, Hawas said reasons that led to such belief are not enough.

One of these reasons is that they found the mummy's arms crossed on the chest, which characterizes the royal system in general, pointing out that this shape could be imitated in later eras.

The strongest evidence that the mummy doesn't belong to Ramses I, is that it should have been inside the royal treasure trove found by an Egyptian family in Luxor in 1881, but it wasn't found, said Hawwas.

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