Mom, there's a 'mummy' in grandmom's attic!
In a once-in-a-lifetime find, a 10-year-old German boy has discovered what may be an ancient Egyptian 'mummy' hidden in a corner of his grandmother's attic, where it lay undisturbed for many decades.
Alexander found the "mummy" inside a sarcophagus covered with hieroglyphics while searching around his grandmother's flat in Diepholz, northern Germany.
Experts are now investigating whether the bandaged Egyptian mummy found by the boy in an old wooden chest of the attic was a genuine ancient Egyptian relic, a replica or something entirely different, 'The Telegraph' reported.
Alexander's father, Lutz Wolfgang Kettler, a dentist, said that his father had acquired the chest while travelling in north Africa in the 1950s and had it shipped back to Germany.
Grandfather Kettler had apparently never spoken about the chest or its contents, the report said.
"Mummy unwrapping parties" were popular among certain elements of German high society in the 1950s, he said.
Lutz told Bild newspaper that the discovery was "a mystery", but stated that he thought the "mummy" could prove to be a replica.
"The only thing to do is X-ray it," he said.
The mummy has been sent to Berlin for further investigation, Lutz said.
