Toronto, June 1 (IANS) A 2,100-year-old tiny Egyptian mummy long believed to be that of a hawk is actually a rare example of a near-to-term, severely malformed baby boy, researchers have found. The mummified foetus was mislabeled as "Mummified Hawk Ptolemaic Period" while being kept at the Britain's Maidstone Museum. The images show well-formed toes and fingers but a skull with severe malformations, said Andrew Nelson, mummy expert and Professor at the University of London, Canada. "In this individual, this part of the vault never formed and there probably was no real brain," Nelson noted. Nelson recently presented the team's findings at the Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies in the Canary Islands.

Source: Economic Times June 01, 2018 12:33 UTC