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Article: The mysterious fate of mummified Lady Tashat.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 22, 2002
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Byline: Mary Abbe; Staff Writer
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has added a special mummy display that includes several mummy cases, X-rays of a mummified corpse, and related material.
The centerpiece will be the museum's own Lady Tashat, an aristocratic, teenaged harem-wife who lived about 3,000 years ago. Her linen-wrapped body is still encased in its brightly painted casket made of glue-soaked linen and plaster. A CAT scan and X-rays suggest that she was not more than 17 years old when she died and show that her ribs are crushed and her spine and left arm broken.
Most mysteriously, there is a second skull - of a man - between her legs. No ...