Thieves plundering graves often looked for ornaments and amulets. King Amenhotep I's mask Image: cc-by-Saleem and Hawass Restored after 3000 years Around 1100 BC, they removed the damaged mummy together with other sarcophagi from their original crypts and hid them in another place to keep them safe from grave robbers. They attribute the fact that he was so well-preserved to a group of Amun high priests. He did not suffer from any fatal disease or injury and researchers estimated his age to be 35 years. 'He was 1.69 meters tall, circumcized and had good teeth,” Saleem said. In the 1930s, a couple of x-rays were made of Amenhotep, but now, radiologist Sahar Saleem of the University of Cairo and archaeologist Zahi Hawass have learned more about the ancient Egyptian pharaoh through computer tomography, and discovered many details about his body. Mummy of Amenhotep I Image: Sunny Celeste/Bildagentur-online/picture alliance / Because of the intact facial mask and wrappings, they decided to keep the pharaoh's mummy without further intervention or examination. 140 years ago, archaeologists discovered the mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I together with other well-preserved corpses in Deir el-Bahari in southern Egypt.
