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2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Turns Out To Be A Pregnant Woman In World First Scientists say 10 percent of mummies are found in the wrong coffin because of grave robbers — and that's likely what happened to this woman. In 1826, a mummy arrived at the University of Warsaw. Researchers promptly dubbed her a "lady mummy." Around 100 years later, archaeologists translated hieroglyphs on her coffin that indicated it belonged to an Egyptian priest — so they assumed that the body was his. However, a recent scan of the same mummy revealed something shocking. Not only was the mummy a woman, as the original researchers had speculated, but she was pregnant. Archeologists were shocked and thrilled, as no pregnant mummy has ever been discovered - read more at the link in our profile.⁠ Wrapped in bandages and buried in pyramids, Egyptian mummies often seem like close-lipped envoys of an ancient era, filled with secrets they cannot tell. Recently, researchers found that one mummy hel...