Royal Ontario Museum’s secret mummy babies revealed
Somewhere deep in the organized jungle of museum storage, Gayle Gibson leans against a long stretch of counter, cooing and fussing over a baby named Hor.
“Poor little fella,” says Gibson, an Egyptologist and teacher at the Royal Ontario Museum. She smiles parentally at the 2,000-year-old mummified infant resting in front of her.
“He’s a nice little kid.”
The years have been good to the preserved infant, but his age does show. Hor is flatter than he used to be and freakishly long. He looks kind of like a deflated tire or a piece of chocolate that melted and got hard again.
Details on his life are sketchy, but Gibson can say that he was born in ancient Egypt, probably came from a rich family and died shortly before his first birthday.
Recently, he has spent a lot of his time lounging in the stuffy ROM storage room, covered in – and resting upon – various layers of protective materials.
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