The Region - News from July 7, 1987

An Egyptian mummy from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History is a woman, University of Arizona Medical Center radiologists concluded with some surprise in Tucson, where the mummy is on loan to the university’s Flandrau Planetarium for a show. Although the coffin bears the male name Takirtut, X-ray tests indicated that the wrapped body is probably that of a tall, slender and well-fed woman 20 to 35 years old at the time of her death in the 2nd or 3rd Century BC.