While the mummy was classified as being in a 'poor state of conservation,' her valuable jewelry was remarkably pristine. The coffin containing the mummy had been carved from a single sycamore tree trunk, then coated with a whitewash and painted in red. The fashionable young lady was found wearing two earrings in one ear, two rings and four necklaces tied together with a glazed ceramic, or 'faience,' clip.Īccording to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the teenager was only 15 or 16 years old when she died during the 17th dynasty (1580 B.C. A team of Spanish and Egyptian archaeologists recently discovered the mummy of a bejeweled teenage girl in a 3,500-year-old tomb near Luxor, Egypt.
