Egyptian Mummy Dubbed ‘Screaming Woman’ May Have Died in Agony

But the space also housed another mummy—a woman wearing a black wig, two scarab-shaped rings and a shocking and eerie screaming expression. included the removal of all organs except the heart," Saleem tells Live Science’s Kristel Tjandra. But in regular circumstances, embalmers would have wrapped the jaw to keep it from opening, Saleem tells Live Science. So why was the Screaming Woman, who seemed so cherished, left with her mouth gaping? “The mummy's screaming facial expression in this study could be read as a cadaveric spasm, implying that the woman died screaming from agony or pain,” Saleem suggests in the same statement.