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Padihershef was a 40-year-old stonecutter in the necropolis in Thebes, an ancient city on the west bank of the Nile, in what is today's Luxor. The mummy was a gift from a Dutch diplomat who was happy with Boston's hospitality. The artifact's arrival created quite a stir, and trustees of the hospital leased it to an entrepreneur who charged visitors $2.50 each to see it during a tour of American cities that extended as far south as Charleston, S.C., officials said. AP photos ABOVE AND BELOW: [Mimi Leveque], a freelance conservator, cleans Padihershef, a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy at Mass General Hospital in Boston, Friday. Padihershef, who has made MGH his home since 1823, was a 40-year old stonecutter in an ancient city on the west bank of the Nile.

Annie aparece inicialmente en los registros dela Academia de Ciencias Naturales en Filadelfia en la primavera de 1885. Fue adquirida por el Dr. Charles Huffnagel, cónsul estadounidense en Calcuta, que apoyaba la Academia y quien parece haber comunicado su adquisición a directivos de la entidad. Las investigaciones indican que la momia estuvo en el Condado Bucks, Pennsylvania, en la residencia de Huffnagel, acompañada por otros artefactos que había traído en sus viajes.

Her coffin, decorated with colorful designs and hieroglyphics, showed Tabes as she probably wanted to look, said Mimi Leveque, a conservator at the museum. ''It's a very stylized, traditional Egyptian image with a small, very petite nose and regular features,'' she said. ''That probably was what the average person wanted to look like.'' ''He had severe hardening of the arteries,'' said Ms. Leveque. A doctor suggested that [Nesptah]'s calcified arteries might have been caused by diabetes, which produces similar conditions today.

Armed with cotton swabs, paint brushes, picks, and a vacuum, Mimi Leveque of Waltham compares her work to traveling in time. Leveque makes her living restoring 2,000-year-old mummies. Last week, she toiled in the basement of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, inspecting an ancient Egyptian mummy mask under soft light emanating from a black desk lamp. The painted face of the woman she was working on dates back to the first century, and Leveque will make sure it survives into the next. 1. Mimi Leveque of Waltham works on a mummy mask at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. / GLOBE STAFF PHOTO / JANET KNOTT 2. Mimi Leveque says she has aspired to her career restoring mummies since she was in kindergarten. / GLOBE STAFF PHOTO / JANET KNOTT