TURNING IN HER COFFIN

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2443, 20 June 1922, Page 1

TURNING IN HER COFFIN

A MUMMY’S MOVEMENT

A group of British Museum officials was gathered round a ease containing an Egyptian mummy. It was the mummy of a priestess named Katebet, who lived nearly three thousand years ago. It had been reported that the mummy was gradually moving over on its left side. At first the idea was treated as an absurdity. The case was examined and the verdict was that Katebet lay in exactly the same place as that in which she had been since the year eight hundred, and something B.C. But this did not satisfy the student of mummies who had reported the supposed movement. She went day by day and watched, and took note of her observations, and at last was able to prove to the officials that the mummy had slightly turned. The explanation is that the vibration of the building, caused by an electrical -power plant, or the footsteps of visitors, or, possibly b.v the running of underground tube trains, has caused a very gradual movement of the mummy in its case.