Viral Video Shows Egyptian Mummy, Not Body Of Vijay Rupani

Claim

Body of former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, who died in the tragic Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. 

 The archived version of the post can be seen here. 

Fact

Newschecker did not find any such video nor any photo as depicted in the viral clip across the extensive media coverage of Rupani’s funeral, which was held with full state honours in Rajkot on June 16, 2025, after his body was identified on Sunday.

A further search led us to the same video on Youtube, uploaded on June 7 , 2025, headlined,  “’Firaun’ is the Arabic word for ‘Pharaoh’, the title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt.”

“’Firaun’ is the Arabic word for ‘Pharaoh’, the title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt. It refers to the rulers of ancient Egypt from the first Dynasty until the Roman Republic annexed Egypt in 30 BCE. While the Egyptian word for “king” was used more frequently during the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty, “Pharaoh” was used contemporaneously for a ruler in a letter to Akhenaten. The term also appears in the story of Moses in Islam,” read the description of the video, which predated the Ahmedabad plane crash by five days.

A reverse image search of keyframes led us to these photos, seen here and here, similar to the remains seen in the video.

According to these posts, the mummy of Ahmose 1 was discovered in 1881 within the Deir el-Bahri Cache (a complex of temples and tombs), alongside other leaders of the 18th and 19th dynasties in Ancient Egypt. Unwrapped by the prestigious Gaston Maspero in 1886, it was located within a cedarwood coffin with hieroglyphic inscriptions and is currently housed in the Luxor Museum in Egypt.

We also came across this February 18, 2024 Instagram post by Egyptian tour guide Mahmoud Hamam, sharing similar photos and stating that the royal mummy of the great warrior King Ahmose I is preserved in the Luxor Museum, while the coffin is kept in the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir square, Cairo.

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Sources
Youtube video, June 7, 2025
Instagram post, Mahmoud Hamam, February 18, 2024