The Unwrapping of the Bristol Mummy

that H7386 was deteriorating fast and might have to be destroyed. I had attended the Manchester symposium of Science in Egyptology in 1979 and this encouraged me to suggest that we should unwrap our mummy. Having obtained the consent of Bristol City Council, the owners of the mummy, it was left to me to organise a team of experts from professional colleagues known to me. This was duly done and the work was begun in the anatomy department of Bristol Medical school on April 1st 1981, and was completed on the 13th. Throughout the unwrapping I acted as commentator on a closed circuit television