In the British Museum they have a mummy of a temple worker. From the outside you can tell that the wooden casket wasn’t made for it’s occupant, as his feet stick out the bottom, but it wasn’t until the whole thing was CAT scanned that it was found that the corpse’s head had fallen off during the embalming process, and been wedged back onto a couple of sticks jammed into his neck hole.
Someone three thousand years ago had a really crappy day at work, but managed to fix up the body, and hide the evidence, presumably thinking “no-one will ever find out about this”, until, millennia later, some scientists found the shoddy handiwork.
What I’m saying is, doing bodged repairs to mummies is a very long standing Egyptian tradition.
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