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Shep-en-Isis
A forensic reconstruction of the face of a female mummy who died about 2,600 years ago reveals a ‘beautiful young lady’ with deep brown eyes and slightly protruding upper teeth. Scientists have spent months creating the reconstruction of what they call the most famous Egyptian mummy in Switzerland known as Shep-en-Isis, or Schepenese, using CT scans and morphological data from her skeleton. Shep-en-Isis was found in 1819 at Deir el-Bahari.
Inscriptions on her sarcophagus suggest she belonged to a wealthy upper-class family and would have had some degree of formal education during her existence in the 7th century BC. She was the daughter of a priest in the city of Thebes, according to experts, and lived in the late period, the early 26th Dynasty – the last heyday of Ancient Egypt – prior to her death by 610 BC. However, it’s not possible to identify the name or profession of Shep-en-Isis’s husband or whether or not she gave birth to children.
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