Hey, that mummy is a daddy
Photos
Galleries
Mummies get CT scans in Manhasset
Talk about a case of mistaken identity. Egyptologists from the Brooklyn Museum and doctors from North Shore University Hospital learned Tuesday through a CT scan that a 2,500-year-old mummy previously thought to be a woman - and named Lady Hor - actually was a man. Dr. Jesse Chusid said that while the mummy's body wrap of linen covered in plaster, called cartonnage, bore the shape of a woman, the...
