Ancient Egypt is famous for its mummies of pharaohs, however, the ancient Egyptians mummified animals as well as people. New non-invasive technology has been used to digitally unwrap three animal mummies in Britain. This has provided new insights into the dark secrets of the ancient Egyptian practice of animal mummification.
The three animal mummies that were the subject of the research are held in the Egypt Centre's collection at Swansea University, in Britain. The research project was an interdisciplinary one and it involved researchers from the university’s engineering and Egypt Centre. Professor Richard Johnston, of the Engineering Department, told the BBC that “The project started purely because the engineering department used to be right opposite the Egypt Centre, and over coffee, I mentioned our X-ray scanner might reveal what's hidden inside their animal mummies, and so we took it from there.”
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