A BU Egyptologist is dashing everyone’s dreams this week, by voicing skepticism that scientists have found the 3500 year old, hefty mummy of Queen Hatshepsut. A tooth, found in a box labeled “Hatshepsut,” fit perfectly in the mouth of a particularly humongous mummy. If A=B and B=C, I’d say the fat mummy is Hatshepsut, but professional crusher of hopes and general happiness destroyer, Kathryn Bard chooses to disagree.

Professor Bard told the International Tribune Herald to be “careful reaching conclusions from such data.” I’m not sure what she means by “such data,” but she also goes on to refute the implication that the mummy’s arms were displayed in a royal fashion. Kathryn Bard, why won’t you let us hang on to the hope that this immense mummy is an ancient queen? Can’t you let us have that much ignorant bliss? Next thing you’ll tell me that the Easter Bunny is a fake or that there are Egyptologists at BU.