Liverpool Museum Unveils Child Mummy

Liverpool Museum unveils child mummy as the part of it’s newest items of the exhibited online.
The mummy of a young boy of the about two years old, elaborately wrapped in a series of the narrow linen bandages. When excavated by Professor Flinders Petrie in he described this as the most perfect example of the complex system of the diagonal winding, it is an completely regular over the entire body.

The colours of the bandages have faded but the thirteen layers were once red, white, gilt, blue and brown, no studs were required to hold them in to the place.
There is a portrait of the child inserted into the bandages, unfortunately badly damaged but originally fine, it is the probable that is damage occurred during the time between preparation of the mummy and the actual burial.
X-rays revealed the presence of an amulet, probably metallic, lying on the tongue, another amulet laying over the genitalia.
Excavated at Hawara cemetery ancient Crocodilopolis and presented to the museum in 1911 by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt.