3,000-Year-Old Elegance: The Mummy with Perfect Braids

Braided Beauty of the Afterlife: Meet the 3,000-Year-Old Mummy with Perfect Plaits!

Frozen in time for over 3,000 years, this young Egyptian woman from the New Kingdom period (c.1550–1069 BCE) continues to captivate the world — not for her status, but for the remarkable preservation of her braided hair.

Still neatly plaited, her hairstyle is a hauntingly human reminder of a life once lived.

Standing only 4 feet 10 inches tall, CT scans reveal she had a slight spinal curvature and organs like the liver and brain still intact — a sign of lower-status mummification, where full embalming was skipped.

Though her name is lost to history, her story whispers from within her wrappings.

Unlike royal tombs filled with gold, she rests modestly — but beautifully preserved — in the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas.

Who was she?

A daughter, a sister, a dreamer?

Her perfect braids hint at a life once cared for … Now eternally remembered.