Takabuti, a young woman from ancient Egypt, met a violent death about 2,600 years ago, struck from behind by an ax while apparently fleeing. This revelation emerges from the in-depth study of proteins in her muscle fibers, which suggests that she was running before she was tragically killed.
His mummy is now one of the main attractions of the Ulster Museum in Belfast, where it has been preserved since 1835 (how were they created?).
The Takabuti investigation was carried out through the Takabuti Project, a collaboration between the National Museums of Northern Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Manchester. Multidisciplinary research has not only clarified the circumstances of his death, but also offered a detailed look at his lifeon the historical and cultural context in which he lived and on the funerary practices of the time.
According to studies, the woman lived during a tumultuous time in Egypt around 600 BC and was the first Egyptian mummy to arrive in Ireland, brought in 1834 by Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood, Co. Down. The hieroglyphics on her coffin, deciphered by the Rev. Dr. Edward Hincks, reveal that she was a married woman, between twenty and thirty years of age, lady of a large house in Thebes, today’s Luxor, a city of great historical and cultural, known for its vast cemetery where she was buried. Her father, Nespare, was a priest of the god Amun, while her mother was called Tasenirit.
Analysis of the Takabuti sarcophagus places it around 660 BC, at the end of the Twentieth Dynasty. His story and the details of his life and death are now collected in the book “The Life and Times of Takabuti in Ancient Egypt: Investigating the Belfast Mummy”.
By the way, what is a mummy doing in Africa?
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