WASHINGTON — A mummy exhibit at a Budapest museum features a Buddha sculpture that contains a mummy inside.
In an examination at Norway’s Meander Medical Center, scientists flipped the statue on its back and did a CT scan during which they found a 1,000-year-old mummy inside. The mummy is a Buddhist monk who lived around the year 1100, scan research shows, according to Drents Museum, the mummy’s former home.
The mummy was on exhibit at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands until last September and is now on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest. In May 2015, it will go to a different display in Luxembourg.
Museum staff were shocked to discover a MUMMY inside this statue: http://t.co/v0CAOH7Msd pic.twitter.com/rS0hfzT8iZ
— MirrorTech (@MirrorTech) February 23, 2015
h/t: The Washington Post
