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Lady Hor Unwrapped (VIDEO)

Lady Hor Unwrapped (VIDEO)
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Mummies from Egypt have long fascinated us, as they preserve the secrets of the ancient civilization in enough detail to recreate how life was back then.

The Brooklyn Museum is using CAT (Computed Tomography) scans, to delve inside the mummified remains. One of the more startling findings using CAT scans was that the "Lady Hor" was in fact anatomically male.

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