The Ancient Egyptian mummy in a wooden sarcophagus came to Latvia in 1902 and was made as a gift to the Dome Museum, now the Museum of History of Riga and Navigation. In the 1950's after the reorganisation of the museum it was handed over to the Foreign Art Museum, now the Latvian National Museum of Art.

From 2000 to 2001 the Foreign Art Museum in co-operation with the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of Musée du Louvre, Egyptologists from Poland und specialists from Latvian Naval Medical Centre in Riga for the first time in Baltics were examining the mummy using the most modern computer tomography.

The examination process showed a mummified man 35-40 years old who had not done manual labour, had not been ill, lived during the Roman Period (30 BC - 100 AD) and was buried in Deir el-Bahri. In 1898 archaeological excavations were made in Deir el-Bahri and after that the mummy was brought to the Cairo Museum. The sarcophagus and the cover are made from painted wood. The cover is from a different sarcophagus that was made earlier; during XXI dynasty (1069 – 945 BC).