Alessia Amenta is an Egyptologist and archeologist and curator at the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Vatican Museums.
[1][2] In 2006, Amenta had directed the study and restoration of Ny-Maat-Re, a mummy that was donated to Pope Leo XIII by the Khedive of Egypt in 1894.
The mummy was restored by 2008 with the help from Cinzia Oliva, a Textile Restorer with the collaboration of the Textile Conservation Laboratory of the Vatican Museums, and was studied for cause of death, nutrition, age and possible pathologies thanks also to the collaboration of the EURAC Institute for Mummies in Bolzano, Italy.
[2] In the process, Amenta's group discovered two fake mini mummies dating possibly to the 19th century.
One contained the shinbone of a man that was wrapped in ancient bandages and decorated to resemble a small Egyptian mummy.