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A shrew mummy (top), found at an animal cemetery in Abydos, was made sometime between 30 B.C. and A.D. 100, during Egypt’s Roman Period. An elaborately wrapped mummy bundle (bottom) takes the form of a human topped with a carved wooden ibis head. CT scans reveal that the bundle is stuffed with feathers, but no ibis skeleton.
For decades, 30 boxes lay forgotten in the storage vaults of the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptology department. The contents had not been catalogued, or even seen, since t
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