A mummified teenager with a heart of gold has been 'digitally unwrapped' approximately 2,300 years after he was buried
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The undisturbed remains of the boy, estimated to be 14 or 15 years old when he died, were examined via CT scans, revealing the lengths his family went to in attempting to ensure his safe passage to the afterlife. To ensure a positive outcome, a place in the afterlife, this particular teenager was buried with 49 amulets - including a golden scarab where his heart would have been and a golden tongue inside his mouth.He was found at a cemetery used between approximately 332 and 30 BC in Nag el-Hassay in southern Egypt during the First World War, but was left unexamined in the basement of Cairo's Egyptian Museum until now.
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