World's first pregnant Egyptian mummy uncovered in Warsaw

The examination of an ancient Egyptian mummy in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw has revealed the world's first known case of a pregnant embalmed body. The discovery that the mummy, which was at first believed to be the body of the priest Hor-Djehuti, was actually a female, occurred in 2016, but now new research by a Polish team of scientists has revealed that the woman in the bandages was pregnant. "We were about to conclude the project ... when my husband Stanislaw, an Egyptian archaeologist, looked at the X-ray images and saw in the deceased woman's womb ... a little foot," Marzena Ozarek-Szilke, an anthropologist and archaeologist from Warsaw University, told PAP.