Meet the ‘Gold Dust Baby’, an extraordinary find from Roman times, believed to be an 8-month-old girl. This unique mummy, carefully coated in shimmering gold dust, harbors a distinctive history of preservation and intriguing patterns of anomalies.

What sets this mummy apart is the unconventional approach taken during excavation, a process typically associated with the transplantation or formation of human remains. In this case, an artificial opening was meticulously designed in the skull, located just behind the left ear and near the pars petrosa of the temporal bone. It should be noted that this cranial defect does not show signs of post-mortem healing, indicating its posthumous origin