2,000 - That’s how old the mummy could be (in years) estimates CSMVS; British Museum experts date it to the Ptolemaic period (305 BCE and 30BCE)

On October 27, Mumbai’s only mummy will go on display at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya as part of the upcoming exhibition, Mummy: An Unsolved Mystery — Conserving Mumbai’s Egyptian Treasures. Sabyasachi Mukherjee, director general and secretary, board of trustees, along with Anupam Sah, head of art conservation, research and training at the museum’s Art Conservation Centre, Bilwa Kulkarni, education officer, and Aparna Bhogal, curator, have been working round the clock to ensure that the biggest blockbuster on Mumbai’s cultural itinerary kicks off according to plan. The exhibition will continue till January 4, 2017.