Call her an expectant mummy. April 30, 2021 The world's first pregnant Egyptian mummy, as discovered by archaeologists during CT scans and X-rays. Photo by Olek Leydo, courtesy of the Warsaw Mummy Project. Archaeologists have discovered the first known example of a pregnant mummy. The ancient remains are said date to the first century B.C. and were discovered in Thebes back in 1826—but experts had long assumed the specimen was male, thanks to inscription on the sarcophagus naming an Egyptian priest. “Our first surprise was that it has no penis, but instead it has breasts and long hair, and then we found out that it’s a pregnant woman,” archaeologist Marzena Ozarek-Szilke told the Associated Press. “When we saw the little foot and then the little hand [of the fetus], we were really shocked.”