The FBI successfully uncovered the idenтιтy of a 4,000-year-old mummy’s head, after deliberating for years whether it belonged to an Egyptian governor or his wife.

The results confirmed that the severed head had belonged to Djehutynakht and not his wife.

The mummy’s severed head was found in 1915 by a team of American archaeologists working in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha.

The FBI successfully uncovered the idenтιтy of a 4,000-year-old mummy’s head, after deliberating for years whether it belonged to an Egyptian governor or his wife

The remains were sent to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts a few years later, the New York Times reported.

The mummified head of Djehutynakht was all that remained after the body was destroyed by tomb robbers.

The tomb, where the severed head was found, had been ransacked over 4,000 years ago and the bodies has been tampered with, researchers deduced. The ancient looters also tried to burn the tomb down.

The mummified head of Djehutynakht is all that remained after the body was destroyed by tomb robbers, pictured here is an x-ray

It took archaeologists years to distinguish whether the head belonged to the Egyptian governor or his wife.

Also the biggest challenge was this hadn’t been attempted before. ‘The problem was that at the time in 2009 there had been no successful extraction of DNA from a mummy that was 4,000-years-old,’ said Rita Freed, a curator at the museum.

Additionally, Egyptian mummies are particularly difficult to work with due to the desert’s scorching climate rapidly reducing the amount of DNA.

The head reportedly has missing cheekbones and parts of its jaw hinge, which are crucial features that would give inside as to whether it was male or female.

Here is a pile of objects found between the east wall of tomb and the outer coffin of Governor Djehutynakht May 11, 1915

Here are the inner and outer coffins of Governor Djehutynakht

Pictured here is a statuette of Governor Djehutynakht at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Loreille, a veteran forensic expert, drilled into the tooth and collected enough tooth dust to make it possible to multiply the amount of DNA she was working with.

Loreille admitted she was hesitant it would even work. ‘I honestly didn’t expect it to work because at the time there was this belief that it was not possible to get DNA from ancient Egyptian remains.’

However, after more than a century the researchers, archaeologists and forensic experts are relieved the mystery has been solved.

Pictured here is the front side panel of the outer coffin of Djehutynakht at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston