Niagara Falls Museum Mummy 6
NFM M6

Mummy M6 is an adult female with braided hair. The body is presently 1.49 m or 4'9.6" in length. The mummy is covered in a thick layer of bitumen, through which many of the original bandages can be seen. X-rays suggest that this young woman died in her early twenties. The teeth, though damaged post-mortem, are not badly worn, and were sound.

The young woman would not have been robust in life; she suffered from scoliosis, with a massive dorsal flexion of the sacral vertebrae.

Mummification was carried out, and the brain was removed through the nose, though x-rays suggest an incomplete evacuation of matter. There are no artificial eyes.

Heavy packing, and the thick coating of bitumen, made it difficult to examine the interior of the body. It appears, however, that at least some of the internal organs were removed, possibly through the vagina.

The hairstyle has been attested in mummies of the Third Intermediate Period.

While more study would certainly be worthwhile, evidence so far suggests a date at death for this lady somewhere between the Twenty-first and Twenty-sixth Dynasties (between 1070 and 525 bce). This would be consistent with these remains actually being those of the original inhabitant of coffins NFM C7 and NFM C8, Iaw-tays-heret.