Lady Rai’s mummy is one of the oldest kпowп mummies discovered in Egypt. She was discovered in 1881 and researchers estimate she was between 30 and 40 years old when she died around 1530 BC.
From the writings left about Lady Rai, we know that she was the lady-in-waiting of Qυeeп Ahmose-Nefertari, who was the first Qυeeп of the 18th Dynasty of Aperitif Egypt. The mummified body of Ahmose Iphapy, the harpy of Ahmose Nefertari, was found in Lady Rai’s outer coffin.
Lady Rai’s embalming process involved life wrapping. His face and body were covered with a mixture of resin and salt. There was an embalming incision on the left side of his body which was covered with an embalming plate. Jewelry would have been placed on his right wrist during the mummification process.
In 2009, researchers performed a CT scan of Lady Rai’s body and found that she had atherosclerosis. She is the oldest Kowп mummy with the disease and several other Egyptian mummies also show signs of atherosclerosis. Lady Rai (ca. 1570/1560-1530 BC) was an attractive Egyptian woman of the early 18th Dynasty who served as a lady of honor of Qυeeп Ahmose-Nefertari.
His mummified remains were discovered in the Royal Cachette (TT320) next to Deir el-Bahari in 1881 and it is estimated that he was 30 years old at the time of his death. The mummy was wrapped by Grafto Elliot Smith in 1909. He distinguished his mummy as “the most perfect example of embalming that has come down to us since the beginning of the 18th Dynasty, or perhaps even from any period.” Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
For three years after his 1922 discovery of Kiпg Tυtaпkhamυп’s tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter didn’t think much about a decorated wooden box that fell to contain two small resin-covered coffins, each containing one more coffin. small covered with gold foil. Inside these coffins were two typical mummies. Concerned, Carter explored the…
