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The skeleton inside
The skull and neck
Journey into the Mummy
The skeleton
Nesperennub's body lies untouched inside his wrappings. His skeleton can tell us a lot about him. Firstly, his spine is in good shape, meaning that he wasn't too old when he died. This is checked out by looking at the plates in his skull, which show that he was probably about 40 - a normal age for Egyptian men to die.
There is a hole at the root of one of his teeth. This abscess probably gave him great pain, as there were no good remedies for these in ancient Egypt. There is also a strange small hole above his left eye, which doesn't look like a wound. He could have had an illness like cancer, or a brain tumour, which attacked the bones of his skull, and this might explain why he died.