By NIKKI MAIN SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
The depiction of a beloved ‘Simpsons’ character has been discovered inside a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy’s sarcophagus.
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.
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.
Archaeologists found a Marge Simpson look-alike drawing surrounded by a dozen high priestesses that represented the 12 hours of the day
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.
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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.’
For years, people have said the show predicts future events often citing the 1992 episode that predicted Washington’s win over the Buffalo Bills at Super Bowl VXVI and a 2000 episode showing Donald Trump as president.
In 1990, ‘The Simpsons’ predicted the censorship of Michelangelo’s David which came to fruition last year when a Florida principal was forced to resign over complaints about a lesson where she showed the statue.
One person took to Reddit to say the coffin’s drawing is ‘the only documented time in history where The Simpsons didn’t do it first.’
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’
The Egyptian coffin contained the mummified remains of Tadi Ist, the daughter of Djehouti, the high priest in El-Ashmunein
Archaeologists reported that the cemetery hosted the remains of senior officials and priests of the New Kingdom who lived from 1550 BC to 1069 BC
The cemetery hosted the remains of senior officials and priests of the New Kingdom who lived from 1550 BC to 1069 BC.
They discovered a wood coffin next to Ist that was dated from the end of the 20th Dynasty and is believed to belong to Nany, a woman who was a chantress of the high priest Djehouti, according to the Egyptian Gazette.
Researchers started excavating the site in 2017 and have uncovered artifacts made from pottery and wood including covered urns, called canopic jars, used to hold the entrails from an embalmed body and several ushabti – a figurine used during funerary practices to honor the dead.
They also found a piece of papyrus that talks about the Book of the Dead – a collection of magical spells used by the ancient Egyptians to help them gain entry to the afterlife.
‘They imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise – but it was quite a hazardous journey so you’d need magical help along the way,’ according to the British Museum.
‘This is the fourth papyrus discovered by the Egyptian mission after the three which were discovered in Saqqara,’ Waziry told the Egyptian Gazette, adding that ‘it will be on display in the Grand Egyptian Museum.’
Archaeologists believe these findings could shed light on ancient Egyptians’ culture, artistry and ancient burial practices