Strange Science: The Voice of a Mummy

Mummy in Louvre (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexbaranov/16162468371/) CC-by-2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Scientists have recently determined what a mummy might have sounded like by 3-D printing a mummy’s vocal cords.

Though a single elongated vowel is not much of a conversation, the technology has been used previously to simulate the sound of speech for a mummified corpse found frozen in the Italian Alps. The latest subject is a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.

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