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Egyptian mummy gets makeover in Leeds

Yorkshire Evening Post

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EVERYONE likes to look their best when appearing in public and Nesyamun, the Leeds mummy, is no exception.

Conservation experts are currently carrying out work to ensure the 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest and his inner and outer coffins look their best before going on display at the new £20m Leeds City Museum which opens on September 13.
Leeds once boasted a fine collection of mummies but they were destroyed in a World War Two air raid in 1941 and only Nesyamun survived.
He will be one of the attractions in the new museum's Ancient Worlds gallery.
Emma Bowron, conservator at Leeds City Museum's Discovery Centre, Clarence Dock, where the work is taking place, said Nesyamun's remains would be moved on to a foam base to give it more stability ahead of its move to the museum in Millennium Square.

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