She died of mysterious causes when she was between 20 and 30 years old

For the first time in history, scientists discover an Egyptian mummy of a 2,000-year-old pregnant woman

A team of Polish scientists has discovered that the mummy of what they thought was an ancient Egyptian priest who died 2,000 years ago was actually that of a pregnant woman, after analyzing her remains.

According to the "Monte Carlo International" website, the scientists described in their study published in the American "Journal of Archaeological Sciences" and reported by the British newspaper The Guardian on April 29, 2021, that this is the first mummy of a pregnant woman to be found.

According to the analysis of the Warsaw Mummy Project, the woman died of still mysterious causes when she was between 20 and 30 years old and it can be said that she was among the elite of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, where her remains were found in the royal tombs.

Archaeologists focused their research on the fetus that was in her womb, and discovered that it was between 26 and 30 weeks old at the time of embalming.

On the other hand, scientists wondered why the fetus was embalmed in the woman’s body and not taken out and embalmed alone, as is the case for stillborn babies.

According to Wojciech Egesmond, the study's lead author, "he may have thought that the fetus was still an integral part of his mother's body because it was not yet born."

"For Egyptologists, this is a wonderful discovery, because we know so little about prenatal and childhood health in ancient Egypt," he added.

However, this may not be the first time archaeologists have made such a discovery.

But this is the first time that the remains have been in good enough condition to allow it to be determined that the mummy was pregnant.

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