An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell
The technique may have been used to repair damage or mimic royal burial customs
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CT scans of an ancient Egyptian mummy (pictured, with the coffin it was inside when purchased by a collector in the 1850s) reveal that under its linen wrappings, the body is encased in a shell of mud.
K. Sowada et al/PLOS ONE 2021 (CC BY 4.0)