A Mother, With Her Unborn Child Inside Her Womb, Surface in Egypt After 3,500 Years

Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities have announced that archaeologists have uncovered in Aswan, Egypt, the skeletal remains of a woman who died towards the end of her pregnancy, still holding the fetus of her child inside her.

The remains of the woman, about 25-years-old, were discovered during a joint Italian-American archaeological project investigating a graveyard at the famous double temple, Kom Ombo, about 30 miles north of the southern city of Aswan, east of the River Nile. Earlier this year, archaeologists exploring beneath the temples found two sets of rooms, built in honor of two gods. They discovered painted tablets revealing new geological data pertaining to Horemheb, as featured in an Ancient Origins news article written by myself.

Discovery Hailed as “Extremely Rare”

The Supreme Council’s preliminary examinations found that the woman’s pelvis “had suffered a fracture that ultimately killed her when improperly treated,” according to a report on Newsweek. The way in which the fetus was positioned within the woman’s body suggested to archaeologists that she would have “given birth relatively soon if she hadn’t died.”