Fact Check: Video of Egyptian Mummy FALSELY shared as Vijay Rupani's remains
The death toll in the Ahmedabad Air India AI171 crash has reached 274 and the numbers are anticipated to grow further. Among the dead is Vijay Rupani, the former Chief Minister of Gujarat. A video now going viral purports to show the charred remains of the Gujarat leader.
India Today Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy inside a museum in Egypt.
India Today Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy inside a museum in Egypt.
advertisementIndia Today Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy inside a museum in Egypt. OUR PROBEReverse-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a YouTube short featuring the same clip, dated June 7, five days before the crash, making it clear that it is unrelated to the tragedy.
The voice-over in the video described it as the remains of a Pharaoh, a monarch of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty. A subsequent search with relevant keywords led us to images of the same remains, featured on several archaeological and news websites. According to these reports, these remains are known as the Ahmose Mummy, or the Mummy of Ahmose. It resides at the Luxor Museum in Egypt.As per the Egypt Tours Portal, Ahmose I's Mummy was discovered in 1881 within the Deir el-Bahri Cache, alongside other leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties. advertisementWe also found several full-length photos of this Mummy, shared by Egyptian tour guide Mahmoud Hamam. While posting these images, he noted that the Mummy was preserved in the Luxor Museum, while the coffin is kept in the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir Square in Cairo. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mahmoud Hamam (@mahmoud_hamam74)Meanwhile, there are no reports about Vijay Rupani's mortal remains being recovered or identified, making it clear that the claim in the viral video is totally baseless. Tune InTrending Reel
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