Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Mummified Princess of Persia


On October 19, 2000, authorities in Balochistan, Pakistan received a tip about a man named Ali Aqbar and video footage which shows an ancient mummy. Mummy is said to have been placed on the black market antiquities at $ 20 million. After the interrogation, led police to the house Aqbar Wali Muhammad Reeki in Kharan near the Afghan border.

          Reeki told officers that he had received the mummy of a man named Sharif Shah of Iran Bakhi who discovered after the earthquake near Quetta.
        
In a press conference on October 26, 2000, archaeologists from Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University announced that the mummy is a corpse was apparently a daughter of the year 600 BC.
The mummy was found in a gilded wooden coffin. Ancient writing engraved on the plate in the chest and stone sarcophagi (burial place).

        
Body The body was placed on top of a mixture of wax and honey. These bodies have an elegant gold crown, with an inscription which states she was named Rhodugune, daughter of King Xerxes I of Persia and a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Persian princess was immediately hailed as major archaeological discovery.
No other Persian mummies ever found and the mummification process is generally considered to be unique to the ancient Egyptians.
After that discovery, the government of Iran and Pakistan were all fighting over the ownership rights of the mummy.

Official Explanation

Story of Persia Princess inspired many archaeologists to investigate the case. He soon discovered that the writing on the mummy's chest has several grammatical errors.
A series of x-ray revealed that some of the common operations for mummifications Egypt has been ignored.
Pakistani professor Ahmad Dani studied item and realized the body was not as old as her coffin.
Ibrahim concluded that the Princess of Persia actual mummified body of a modern woman about 21-25 years, who died around 1996, probably killed by blunt force to the neck.
On August 5, 2005, it was announced that the body would be given a proper burial rights. However, until 2011, the corpse remains buried because of bureaucratic delays.

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