Strangest Things
The Battery, the Screaming Mummy and the Medieval Iron Hand
Season 1 Episode 3 of 10
The mummy of Prince Pentawere, who took his own life, is on public display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Pentawere's mummy, popularly known as the 'screaming mummy,' was not properly mummified. No embalming fluid was used and his body was allowed to naturally mummify, with his mouth agape and his facial muscles strained. This programme reveals new details emerging about the death. Plus, one of the world's first batteries
Strangest Things airs on Sky History +1 at 9:00 AM, Tuesday 8 October. (Subtitles.)
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