Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

An Egyptian mummy ... agitated to have the mummy returned. “It is the body of a man believed to have died of natural causes. He was not high ranking. The sarcophagus dates from 300 years earlier ...