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You're watching a Nova video
podcast. For decades, rumors swirled
around this body discovered in a museum
in Niagara
Falls. The look of the mummy and other
circumstantial evidence strongly
suggested that it was a missing pharaoh
from Egypt's 19th
dynasty. A curator in Atlanta, who had
purchased the mummy, turned to an
Egyptian expert for his opinion.
Zahi Has is Egypt's foremost authority
on mummies and antiquities.
When I uh heard in the news that this is
a mommy of Ramiswan, I thought that this
is
speculation. I thought it's maybe a
joke. Uh how a king will appear suddenly
like this? How we will know that this
mommy of a king left Egypt and no one
knows anything about it?
The only person really who talked to me
about this mommy is Peter
Lakara. And I told him that in the
future I should see this
mommy. In 2003, Hawas visited the Carlos
Museum in Atlanta to offer his
expertise. He called on an unusual
talent.
Myself, I can smell uh royal mummies and
I know the difference from a mummy to
the others. You know, I discovered in my
career more than
234 mm and I can really look at the face
and from the first sight I will find out
that it's a royal mommy or
not. That's Yeah.
He looks like a king.
Yeah, he looks like city for sure,
doesn't he? Exact City. He does.
Exactly. Yeah.
You have
the style of of the new kingdoms.
Perfect. I can confirm that this is a
mommy of the pharaoh. But I'm not sure
if I can say that this is a mommy of
ramsis one or not. But since uh ramsis
one mommy is missing from the uh cachet
of derel bah then maybe we can say that
this is the mommy of ramsis one.
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