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'''Takabuti''' was an [[ancient Egypt]]ian married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years. She lived in the Egyptian city of [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] at the end of the [[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt]], c. 660 BC.{{cite journal |last1=Drosou |first1=Konstantina |last2=Collin |first2=Thomas C. |last3=Freeman |first3=Peter J. |last4=Loynes |first4=Robert |last5=Freemont |first5=Tony |title=The First Reported Case of the Rare Mitochondrial Haplotype H4a1 in Ancient Egypt |journal=Scientific Reports |date=12 October 2020 |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=17037 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-74114-9 |pmid=33046824 |pmc=7550590 |bibcode=2020NatSR..1017037D |doi-access=free }} Her [[Mummy|mummified]] body and mummy case are in the [[Ulster Museum]] in [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland.Lynne and Ronald Wallace Hogg, Ronald Wallace Hogg, ''FreeToDo Travel Guides - UK and Ireland'', FreeToDo Travel Guides, {{ISBN|0-9553600-0-5}}, p.345 Takabuti was the first mummy to be unwrapped in Ireland, in 1835.{{cite web | url=https://www.nationalmuseumsni.org/postgraduate-research-takabutis-origins | title=Takabuti's Origins | National Museums NI}}
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The coffin was opened and the mummy unrolled on 27 January 1835 in [[Belfast Natural History Society]]'s museum at College Square North. [[Edward Hincks]], a leading Egyptologist from [[Ireland]], was present and deciphered the [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] which revealed that she was a noblewoman and the mistress of a great house. Her mother's name was Tasenirit and her father was Nespare, a priest of [[Amun]].{{cite web |url=https://www.magzter.com/stories/Culture/Ancient-Egypt/TAKABUTI-the-Belfast-Mummy |title=Takabuti, The Belfast Mummy |website=Ancient Egypt magazine |date=2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/tutDFWOCQqWlM8jEOwMABg# |title=The Egyptian mummy Takabuti |website=BBC}}{{cite web |title=The Egyptian mummy Takabuti and her case |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/tutDFWOCQqWlM8jEOwMABg |work=A History of the World |publisher=BBC }} She was buried in a cemetery west of Thebes. It was initially suggested that Takabuti was murdered due to knife wounds found on her body.{{cite press release |title=Shocking truth behind Takabuti's death revealed |url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/shocking-truth-behind-takabutis-death-revealed/ |publisher=The University of Manchester |date=27 January 2020 }}
The coffin was opened and the mummy unrolled on 27 January 1835 in [[Belfast Natural History Society]]'s museum at College Square North. [[Edward Hincks]], a leading Egyptologist from [[Ireland]], was present and deciphered the [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] which revealed that she was a noblewoman and the mistress of a great house. Her mother's name was Tasenirit and her father was Nespare, a priest of [[Amun]].{{cite web |url=https://www.magzter.com/stories/Culture/Ancient-Egypt/TAKABUTI-the-Belfast-Mummy |title=Takabuti, The Belfast Mummy |website=Ancient Egypt magazine |date=2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/tutDFWOCQqWlM8jEOwMABg# |title=The Egyptian mummy Takabuti |website=BBC}}{{cite web |title=The Egyptian mummy Takabuti and her case |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/tutDFWOCQqWlM8jEOwMABg |work=A History of the World |publisher=BBC }} She was buried in a cemetery west of Thebes. It was initially suggested that Takabuti was murdered due to knife wounds found on her body.{{cite press release |title=Shocking truth behind Takabuti's death revealed |url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/shocking-truth-behind-takabutis-death-revealed/ |publisher=The University of Manchester |date=27 January 2020 }}
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