In a glass case at the Ulster Museum of Belfast lies the mummified body of a woman whose cause of death had been undetermined since she passed to the afterlife. She had been keeping a grisly secret.
Not all of Takabuti’s secrets emerged when she was first unwrapped in 1835. There were no signs of illness, and there also seemed to be no signs of anything else. Now Egyptologist Rosalie David and her team of researchers, who previously studied Takabuti through the eye of a CT scanner but were still unable to find out how she died when she was only in her late 20s, have finally revealed that she had come to a horrific end — and it could have been an enemy attack or even a betrayal from her own people.
