Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass revealed new secrets about the mummy registered in the name of "The Unknown Man", located at the Egyptian Museum.
Hawass said that this mummy remained in the Egyptian Museum and nobody knew anything about it and was registered as “the unknown man E”.
The Egyptian archaeologist also provided technical details about the mummy, stating that it belongs to an 18-year-old young man. He was not embalmed but was wrapped with goatskin, pointing out that it is known that the Pharaohs considered using goatskin to be a dirty thing.
Hawass stressed that some believed that the unknown mummy belonged to a non-Egyptian young man who was the son of King of the Hittites.
He then talked about the story of Queen Ankhesenamon, King Tutankhamun's wife, who sent a letter to the Hittites King, asking him to marry his son after the king's death.
The Egyptian archaeologist pointed out that after examining the DNA of the humiliated mummy in goatskin, it was found that it belonged to Pentawere, the son of King Ramses III, who was hanged according to the papyrus.
Hawass explained that traces of the hanging rope around his neck can be found as a declaration that this mummy belonged to the son who tried to kill his father 3000 years ago, for his mysterious crime to be revealed after all these years.
The Egyptian archaeologist emphasized that they decided at the start of the Egyptian Project for the study of royal mummies to examine King Ramses III mummy with a CT scan after reading in a papyrus called Harem that the king's second wife, called Tia and her son, Pentawere, were conspiring to kill the king so that he could rule Egypt instead of Ramses IV.
The papyrus revealed that a group of women and army commanders conspired to kill the king, however, it did not show that the king had been killed.
Contributed by Yara Sameh
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