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Ramses II's Mummy: The Forensic Journey of a King
We trace the extraordinary, nearly two-thousand-year journey of Ramses II’s mummy from his burial in KV7 to its modern discovery and global exhibition. This episode focuses on the physical evidence left on the pharaoh’s body—his severe arthritis, dental abscesses, and the violent wound to his skull—and what they reveal about his final years. We also explore the dramatic theft of the mummy by grave robbers, its accidental preservation in a Coptic Christian church, and the scientific methods used by anthropologists like Grafton Elliot Smith to decode the life of the man behind the legend…
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