What they did not discover was any cause of death for Amenhotep. After Amenhotep's death, he and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari were worshipped as gods, the researchers said. "Amenhotep I seems to have physically resembled his father: he had a narrow chin, a small narrow nose, curly hair, and mildly protruding upper teeth.”Īmenhotep I was the second pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th dynasty, following his father Ahmose I. "Within his wrappings, he wore 30 amulets and a unique golden girdle with gold beads," she said. He was about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, had good teeth and was circumcised.
Their findings show that Amenhotep I was about 35 years old at death. Three-dimensional CT image of the head of the wrapped mummy of Amenhotep I, showing his shrunken skull and skeleton within the bandages. Saleem and famed Egyptologist and study co-author Zahi Hawass, who have studied more than 40 mummies in the Egyptian Antiquity Ministry Project, launched in 2005, did the CT scans in 2019 at the Gallery of Royal Mummies in the Cairo Egyptian Museum.“By digitally unwrapping of the mummy and ‘peeling off’ its virtual layers – the facemask, the bandages, and the mummy itself – we could study this well-preserved pharaoh in unprecedented detail,” Saleem said. Amenhotep I's original tomb has not been found. The mummy of Amenhotep I was discovered in 1881 in the ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) along the Nile River in southern Egypt. Three thousand years ago, priests restored and reburied Amenhotep's mummy and other mummies to repair damage done by grave robbers, researchers said.
“This fact that Amenhotep I’s mummy had never been unwrapped in modern times gave us a unique opportunity: not just to study how he had originally been mummified and buried, but also how he had been treated and reburied twice, centuries after his death, by High Priests of Amun,” said Sahar Saleem, professor of radiology at the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University and the radiologist of the Egyptian Mummy Project, the study’s first author, in a news release. The rest of the head mask is partly hidden by floral garlands. On the forehead is a separately carved painted cobra of painted wood, inlaid stones, and cartonnage. The mummy of Amenhotep I has a face mask with eyes inlaid with black pupils made of obsidian crystals.
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