Editing Persian Princess (section)

==Misidentification==
In a press conference on 26 October, Pakistani archaeologist [[Ahmad Hasan Dani]] of Islamabad's [[Quaid-e-Azam University]] announced that the mummy seemed to be a princess dated circa 600 BC. The mummy was wrapped in [[ancient Egypt]]ian style, and rested in a gilded wooden coffin with [[Cuneiform script|cuneiform]] carvings inside a stone [[sarcophagus]]. The coffin had been carved with a large [[faravahar]] image. The mummy was atop a layer of wax and honey, was covered by a stone slab and had a golden crown on its brow.<ref name=archaeology/> An inscription on the golden chest plate claimed that she was the relatively unknown [[Rhodogune (daughter of Xerxes I)|Rhodogune]], a daughter of king [[Xerxes I of Persia]] and a member of the [[Achaemenid dynasty]].<ref name=mystery>''The Mystery of the Persian Mummy''. BBC Two. 20 September 2001. ([http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/persianmummytrans.shtml transcript])</ref><ref name=schmitt>{{cite journal |last1=Schmitt |first1=Rüdiger |author-link=Rüdiger Schmitt |date=2003 |title=A Further Spurious Inscription in Old Persian Writing: The Mummy of 'Rhodogoune' |journal=Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān - International journal of ancient Iranian studies |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=3–13 }}</ref>{{rp|4}}

Hasan Dani speculated that she might have been an Egyptian princess married to a Persian prince, or a daughter of the Achaemenid king [[Cyrus the Great]]. However, because mummification had been primarily an Egyptian practice, they had not encountered any mummies in Persia before.<ref name=archaeology/>