Ahmose-Meritamon (17th dynasty)

Ahmose-Meritamon ("Born of the Moon, Beloved of Amun") was a princess of the 17th Dynasty of Egypt, probably a daughter of pharaoh Seqenenre Tao (the Brave).

Her mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahri cache (DB320) and is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Her organs were removed through an incision on the left side and her body cavity packed with resin-treated linen and "aromatic sawdust".

She had extensive hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and is suggested to have died of a sudden heart attack.

Her unusual pose is considered to be the position she died in and was mummified in it, with her body not being found before rigor mortis set in.