EXPERTS at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge have finally identified the sex of an Egyptian child mummy that was acquired by Saffron Walden Museum from a private collection in 1878.
Archaeologists wanted to know if it was a boy or a girl, after x-rays taken in the 1970s suggested it was a boy aged about eight but the results were inconclusive.
Superintendent neuro-radiographer Halina Szutowicz carried out the CT scan which found the body still had baby teeth intact leading Halina to believe the boy was aged five or six.
A study of an image of the pelvis led the team to conclude the mummy was male. He had a skull fracture and a broken collarbone.
Source: Cambridge First [November 24, 2010]