Did you know that there is a real Egyptian mummy in Belgrade? I didn’t. No wonder, though, because there was no real effort to promote it so far, hell, there was no effort even to conserve/preserve it (what’s the appropriate expression?) properly. A special glass closet needed to keep a mummy inside costs around 70.000 euros according to the experts. I’m not sure how important this cabinet really is, being that the mummy managed to survive (no pun intended) for several hundred years even before special glass cabinets for mummies were invented. Not even the WWII bombing of the museum could harm our mummy.
photo from Faculty of Philosophy mummy page
Mummy’s name is Nesmin, according to B92, and a Google search reveals another Nesmin mummy in Liverpool museum. The big advantage of our mummy in comparison to this and other mummies in the world is that it’s one of the rare ones to have a papyrus scroll wrapped in the bandages with the body.
It is no wonder we are so reckless towards our mummy and other cultural treasures – in a country with bad economy, culture is one of the first things to suffer and one of the last on the ‘to do’ list. But still… a mummy, eh?
