Wichita ? A leading Egyptologist is in Wichita this weekend following a lead in an ancient cold case.

Bob Brier, a Long Island University professor sometimes called “Mr. Mummy” after a television special he made a few years ago, plans to study a mummy on display at the Museum of World Treasures to see whether she was connected to a 3,000-year-old murder plot involving an Egyptian pharaoh.

The mummy is known at the museum as the “Braided Lady” because of her hairstyle. Museum founder Jon Kardatzke said the woman stood about 4 feet, 10 inches when she was alive and suffered from a curvature of the spine. But little else in known about her.

Kardatzke said the mummy shares some characteristics with a mummy in Egypt who already has been linked to the murder plot.

Kardatzke sent an e-mail to Brier about a year ago asking whether scientists could use DNA samples from the Braided Lady to determine where she came from.

“Unfortunately the answer was no,” said Brier, who instead decided to pay the mummy a visit. “The technology’s not there.”

Brier’s examination of the mummy won’t be open to the public. He said he plans to closely examine the Braided Lady’s teeth, bones and fingernails in an attempt to learn more about her life.

“Mummies are like encyclopedias,” he said. “If you can read them, you can get a lot of information out of them.”