Identification
In a press conference on October 26, archaeologist Ahmad Hasan Dani of Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University announced that the mummy seemed to be a princess dated circa 600 BC. The mummy was wrapped in ancient Egyptian style, and rested in a gilded wooden coffin with cuneiform carvings inside a stone sarcophagus. The coffin had been carved with a large faravahar image. The mummy was atop a layer of wax and honey, was covered by a stone slab and had a golden crown on its brow An inscription on the golden chest plate claimed that she was the relatively unknown Rhodugune, a daughter of king Xerxes I of Persia and a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Archaeologists speculated that she might have been an Egyptian princess married to a Persian prince, or a daughter of Cyrus the Great of Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. However, because mummification had been primarily an Egyptian practice, they had not encountered any mummies in Persia before.
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