10-Year-Old Boy Finds Egyptian Mummy in His Grandmother’s Attic

10-year-old Alexander Kettler has recently discovered what appears to be an Egyptian mummy hidden inside his grandmother's attic.

Information shared with the public says that the boy was merely exploring his grandmother's flat in Deipholz, Germany when he stumbled upon a sarcophagus.

Together with his parents, he opened it and found that it housed a mummy. Neither the Kettler family, nor archaeologists are sure whether these remains are legitimate.

Still, the boy's father, Lutz Wolfgang Kettler, seems to think that what his son found hidden inside the sarcophagus is an actual Egyptian mummy.

“It’s only the question if it’s real or not, so we have to do more examinations to find out. You just don't get the feeling that's something you could buy at a shop around the corner,” Lutz Wolfgang Kettler told the press, as cited by International Business Times.

Should the mummy be proven legitimate, odds are it was brought to Germany back in the 1950s by Alexander Kettler's grandfather, who reportedly traveled to Africa on several occasions and even carried home a peculiar chest at one point.

At that time, he refused to disclose what the chest contained, and the Kettler family soon forgot about its existence.

The mummy will soon be transported to Berlin, where archaeologists will closely examine it and try to determine whether it has any historical value or not.

If proven authentic, the mummy will almost surely be shipped back to Egypt and put on display at a museum.

The same source informs us that, all things considered, the sarcophagus inside which the mummy was hidden is probably a replica. Thus, despite its being encrypted with hieroglyphs, it looks fake.

A death mask and a canopic jar used to store organs, which were recovered from containers close to the sarcophagus, appear to also be no more and no less than knockoffs.