The depiction of a beloved ‘Simpsons’ character has been discovered inside a 3,500-year-old mummy’s sarcophagus in Egypt.
Archaeologists found the inner lid featured a drawing of a yellow-colored woman in a long, green garment with blue hair shaped in a rectangle – similar to the look of Marge Simpson.
Egypt’s mummy resembles Marge of the Simpsons
The photo of the ancient coffin was recently shared on Reddit where it generated excitement from people on Reddit who asked “Marge?” and joked that “Egypt predicted Simpsons.”
While the imagery bears a striking resemblance to the cartoon character, experts believe it depicts the woman buried in the coffin as she traveled to the afterlife.
The Egyptian coffin contained the mummified remains of Tadi Ist, the daughter of the high priest of El-Ashmunein – a town located on the western bank of the Nile River and 27 miles south of where she was buried in Minya.
Archaeologists unearthed the coffin in early 2023 and found the Marge Simpson look-alike drawing on the inside of the lid that was surrounded by a dozen high priestesses that represented the 12 hours of the day.
The mummy was found in excellent condition, wearing a mask and beaded dress.
“It is a rare and important scene ever. Every scene of the hour has its shape,” the Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General Mostafa Waziry told The Egyptian Gazette.
However, the center drawing has gained the most attention for its resemblance to Marge from Fox’s beloved long-running cartoon, The Simpsons.
More mummies discovered
Another mummy housed in a wooden coffin was found alongside that one and is believed to have belonged to a woman named Nany, who was a chantress of Djehouti. Her coffin is estimated to date back to the end of the 20th Dynasty.
A papyrus measuring about 16 or 18 meters that appeared to discuss the Book of the Dead was also found, along with several artifacts including canopic jars and funerary figurines made out of pottery and wood.
Waziry said, per The Egyptian Gazette, that the papyrus would be displayed “in the Grand Egyptian Museum.”
Archaeologists believed the cemetery was the final resting place for senior officials and priests during the New Kingdom period of Egypt from 1550 BC to 1069 BC, according to The Egyptian Gazette.
Archaeologists in Egypt have recently discovered four 4,300-year-old tombs and a mummy wrapped in gold leaf.
The mummy is made up of the remains of a man named Hekashepes and was found preserved within a sarcophagus. It is one of the oldest and most complete non-royal corpses ever discovered in Egypt.
It was discovered in a burial site at Saqqara, which is located 19 miles south of Cairo, down a 15-meter-long (Approx. 50-foot-long) shaft, together with four other tombs.