The Mystery Of The Sealed Coffin | Mummy Forensics | Timeline

Published 2019-02-28
Dr Joann Fletcher is on a mission, she and the Mummy Investigation Team at York University have been called in to look at a mysterious case – a female mummy inside a beautifully painted Egyptian coffin. There’s only one catch, they’re not allowed to open the coffin. In one of the teams’ most unusual cases they must solve the mystery of this woman’s demise without ever having access to her mummy. Using everything in their power the investigation combines Xray and CT scans with facial reconstruction and facial modelling to discover who this woman was and how she died. But none of them is prepared for the grizzly tale they eventually unravel.

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All Comments (21)
  • @IceColdIntrigue
    Jokes on the ones who tried to destroy her memory, they've been forgotten by time while HER memory lives on, immortal and representative of her people.
  • The “music “overwhelms what the scientists are saying. The repetive sounds are more like noise jamming a signal.
  • @alisoncircus
    The subtlety of the sabotage suggests that the priesthood wanted her obliterated but didn't want her family (or anyone else who would have understood what they did) to notice it.
  • @popcornmix5075
    The fact that they went to the library, found a tiny, thick, old, handmade 198 year old book and found an item inside of it that was one of the breakthroughs in the case is aesthetically pleasing. Gives me Poirot vibes.
  • @jeffbaxter8770
    Stunning! What a fascinating documentary, loved every minute of it. A huge pity that every time an expert gave their opinion, the loud music drowned them out.
  • @boojay111
    blasted music is always too loud on documentaries I want to hear what people are saying not the ego of the music department
  • Whoever plotted against her failed to erase her from history. All that work, and yet the truth came out.
  • As someone with an over bite myself, Its refreshing to know that I would have been considered high class and royal in that time. I am glad that the plans of who ever murdered ner and then sabataged her afterlife, were in a sense turned over as she "lives" again through this documentary and their research. Even with out an actual name.
  • @QuietBloom
    I wish they wouldn’t put those goofy eyelashes on the reconstructions.
  • Ugh, you can't even hear the last 10 minutes because the music is so loud. Who screwed that up??
  • @TheGhostchaser8
    Dr Fletchers enthusiasm is infectious in most all her shows. For those out there who bash her and others with their theories and conclusions, archeology as with many other sciences, are open to interpretation. There are many accepted history theories that are based on assumptions, suppositions, speculation and guess work. I find Dr Fletchers documentaries interesting to say the least. Her videos on Egyptian common folk are top notch, and at times emotionally moving. Her work on ancient civilizations are just as relevant as others, possibly even more so.
  • @Diamond-og8ol
    Pity the background music is too loud, over the voices
  • @nolagirl7082
    When you think about it, that’s actually pretty freaking cool that they were able to find all this info when they couldn’t even open up the coffin and have the actual mummy for testing. I’m amazed everytime I learn of a new “thing” we can do scientifically speaking. It makes me think of how far we’ve come just in the last hundred years. I feel like invention, science, and just a more basic understanding of the world around us was very slow to progress in the past. But with the modern invention of “technology” like electricity, radio/tv, computers etc, we have come SOOO FAR just in the last 100 years! It’s like we’re at this master speed of progression right now and I feel it will only move us faster into the future. So exciting and scary all at the same time!
  • "Expert in craniofacial identification?" Why does her reconstruction models eyelashes look like they were done with MS Paint? 😂
  • Dr. Fletcher is my favorite as she's just as fascinating as the subjects she's a professional on. Her expertise is unlike others with the knowledge she provides us in these documetaries.
  • @Llegando_Tarde
    These documentaries are their afterlife. The adorned coffins and mummification worked, because it made us notice them individually. Through us everytime we remember them, talk about them, in our imaginations they live. All because they mummified their selves.
  • I really enjoy your videos. As a rural woman I thank you for bringing the world to me. I appreciate it.
  • @nonnymous3369
    Awesome and sad, and the music overpowered the speech sadly. I hope she finally rests in peace. great upload thank you
  • @freckledmilk030
    Started getting a headache from the music. music is okay, just turn it down, I wanna hear the people -.-
  • @rooferization
    I had to laugh at to laugh at the surgeons terminology, Blood rushing out at a vast rate of Knots, Yup he's Navy.