Report to recommend resting place of Egyptian mummy

A report on whether or not a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy in UCC’s Boole Library should remain in Ireland or be returned to Egypt is due in weeks.

A spokesman for the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin said a restoration team and a number of experts had examined the mummy and the coffin in which it is contained. The team is preparing a report and once this is completed, a decision on the future of the mummy would be made.

“It’s still in UCC. We had a team go down to Cork to examine the mummy and the coffin and they are preparing a report which is due around now.