"The Secrets of Tomb 10A, Egypt 2000 BC" is a fairly new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, located in Boston, MA. As a part of the exhibit, there is a mummified head of one of the Tomb 10A's occupants. It is still unknown as to if the head is male or female but a DNA analysis is still in the works to hopefully clarify if it is Governor or Lady Djehutynakht. What interested me about this mummified head is how well in tact it still was. You could clearly see the wrapping of the material around the head, as well as the black pigment designs in place of where the eye brows would be. This mummy is one of the earliest to show evidence that embalmers removed the brain through the nose. The bones on each side of the nose were surgically removed in order to assist in the removal of the brain. This represents the amount of detail and care that the egyptians gave to a body when someone died.
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