BELGRADE MUMMY SHROUDED IN MYSTERY: It is kept in the city center, you can see now why is it unique in the world (PHOTO) (VIDEO)
Visitors for the first time can see the mummy in Belgrade
Back in 1888, richly decorated coffin with the mummy of the priest Nesmin in Luxor was bought by Pavle Ridjicki in Mokrin, with the intention for the Serbian people "to watch it and to learn from it".
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Mummy, after several months of travel arrived in Belgrade where it was entrusted for safekeeping to the National Museum. In recent years, the mummy was placed in the Archaeological Collection of the Faculty of Philosophy, which is only occasionally open to visitors.
Only at the beginning of this century it has been found that this mummified Belgrade resident was a priest Nesmin, or "one who belongs to God Minu." It was the priest who was in charge of dressing the statue of the deity in the temple dedicated to the god of fertility Minu.
He came from Akhmim, a town about 200 kilometers from Luxor, and all the male members of his family were priests in the service of Mina.
At the time of his death Nesmin was not older than 50 years, and it was determined that he came from the Ptolemaic period - about 300 BC.
Because of its significance, research has been continued and even the DNA of mummies was tested, and in 2011 Nesmin's head was reconstructed with the help of 3D technology, and today, two millennia after his death, we know how the face of the Belgrade mummy looked like.
What makes the Belgrade mummy so specific is because we own great deal to it and the sarcophagus because it greatly helped the understanding of the mysterious "Book of the Dead."
See footage of T Now to find out the big secret that this mummy carries.
The National Museum organizes regular appointments when interested visitors will be able to see and learn more about the only Egyptian mummy kept in Serbia.
Every second week from October 29, alternating Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12.00 it will be possible to attend the professional tour.
Entrance is free but due to limited space on the mandatory sign up on the edukacija@narodnimuzej.rs. The entrance will be through the yard Captain Misa building from the street Vuk Karadzic.
(Telegraf.co.uk / J.S.)