Scanning for the secrets of mummies
The British Museum has carried out scans on eight Egyptian mummies, revealing unprecedented details about the people inside the caskets.
Each mummy was put into a state-of-the-art CT scanner, allowing the scientists to tell their age, what they ate, the diseases they suffered from, and how they died.
Pallab Ghosh reports.
19 May 2014
- From the section Science & Environment