Griggs was visiting the museum as a precursor to a lecture he was asked to give in San Jose in the fall. Wilfred Griggs, director of ancient studies at BYU and a professor of ancient scripture, was intrigued by the discovery of the pin in August 1995 when he and a team of experts saw it in the X ray of one of six mummies they were examining at the museum. The mummy, called Usermontu, is located at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium in San Jose.Ī BYU professor and a team of specialists discovered an iron pin in the knee of an Egyptian mummy at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium in San Jose, Calif., evidencing an advanced surgical procedure performed nearly 2,600 years ago.Ĭ. Wilfred Griggs, Utah County medical doctors Bruce Mclff and Richard Jackson, and San Jose, Calif., doctor Grady Jeeter, examines the mummy in which Griggs discovered a 9-inch iron knee pin.
A team of experts, including (from left) BYU professor C.
