Thousands of images, powerful computers, advanced algorithms, a reality center—the mystery of the mummy is revealed after five decades, and two thousand years. First, the skull virtually unwraps. The cartonnage and the ancient wrappings, crisscrossed with the jagged outlines of the child's hair that mixed with the resin during the mummification process, are stripped away. Moving into the skull, then turning into the chest cavity, riding through it, ribs overhead. Down to the misaligned pelvis, which was once thought to be a key to the child's death, and the short leg bones to the feet — gnarled toes splayed out like a fan of white digits. Skerit, the child mummy, dates back more than two thousand years. She — for it turns out that the mummy is a she — was a mystery to the curators of the Rosi-crucian Egyptian Museum (San Jose, CA) who named her. Who was this mummy child? Was it a boy or a girl? And why was the head cocked at such an odd angle, the hands crossed over the chest?
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