Mummy gold mask

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We hypothesized that scanning and 3D-printing the mummy using Computed Tomography (CT) could help in documenting and promoting its public display.

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A fully wrapped mummy, from a Late Ptolemaic cemetery (c.332-30 BC) in Edfu, Egypt, has been stored, unexamined, at the Cairo Egyptian Museum since 1916.

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1Department of Radiology, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, EgyptĪncient Egyptian mummies represent an opportunity to learn more about the health, beliefs, and skills of humans in antiquity.Saleem 1* Sabah Abd el-Razek Seddik 2 Mahmoud el-Halwagy 2

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