The amulets were of 21 different types, and while many were made of gold, others were made of semiprecious stones, fired clay, or faience, reported a team led by Dr. Sahar Saleem, professor of radiology at Cairo University. The teenage boy was dressed in sandals and festooned with ferns. He was bedecked with 49 amulets intended to protect him as he journeyed into the afterlife, according to a report published on January 24 in Frontiers in Medicine. Scientists have 'digitally unwrapped' a 2,300-year-old mummy known as golden boy.
