Medicine & TechnologySee more photos of the mummy of a teenager girl and the jewels she was wearing as her bridal dowry, and a pair of “remarkably well-preserved sandals”
Curators at the National Museum of Scotland have made an exceptional discovery inside a World War II service envelope with a hand-written note. The writing distinguishes the contents, a remarkably preserved mummy shroud, as being from an ancient Egyptian tomb originally built around 1290 BC.