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The Body of Queen Tii

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JUDGING from the letter addressed to NATURE of September 26 (p. 545), Mr. Hall (like Prof. Sayce in the Times of September 17) has been thrown into a state of doubt in regard to the real sex (? and age) of the mummy supposed to be “Queen Tii” by a letter from Mr. Theodore Davis, calling in question the accuracy of my statement that the mummy supposed to be an old lady of at least fifty years is the skeleton of a young man of about half that age.

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SMITH, G. The Body of Queen Tii. Nature 76, 615–616 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076615a0

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