Archaeologist Dr Jamie Fraser works at Sydney University's Nicholson Museum.

In 2016, he opened an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus for the first time in decades.

A catalogue written in the 1940s had described the contents as 'debris'.

But inside, Jamie saw the remains of a mummified woman.

Her coffin was in disarray, after grave robbers had plundered the body, searching for amulets and gold.

A delicate archaeological investigation began involving CT scanning the coffin, and the discovery of more than 7000 beads.

The process helped to confirm the identity of the mummy as Mer-Neith-it-es, a Priestess who lived and died in Egypt in the 6th Century BC.

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