Nesperennub

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Nesperennub (* around 850 BC; † around 800 BC) was a high priest in the temple at Karnak , who achieved fame through researching his mummy . It is known that Nesperennub owned large estates and was an advisor to the Pharaoh . His father was also a priest. Nesperennub was married and died around 800 BC, around the age of 50, possibly from a brain tumor located behind his forehead. He was mummified and buried on the west bank of the Nile in the Valley of the Kings , from where his mummy was packed and shipped from one place to another.

Investigation of the mummy

The mummy has been in the British Museum in London since 1899 , where it remained wrapped and undamaged for a long time. Finally it was placed in the computer tomograph at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery , where its insides could be viewed with the help of modern CT computer technology without damaging it in the slightest. He was the first mummy to be fully digitally captured. Amulets , gifts, but also injuries were visible on the computer.

There are now 3D images of every corner of his body. The British Museum, a film about the home Nesperennubs, computer animations of Egypt was, in his time from various filming facial reconstructions and the smallest details to its mummification and 3D - animations produced by Nesperennubs body and much more for visitors to the museum, by Sir Ian McKellen synchronized and attracted countless visitors. The special exhibition was called Mummy: The Inside Story .

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SURNAME Nesperennub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION High priest in the temple at Karnak
DATE OF BIRTH around 850 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Karnak
DATE OF DEATH around 800 BC Chr.
Place of death unsure: Karnak