CT Scan of Meresamun mummy

Using a hospital scanner, scientists were able to peer inside her closed casket, and see through the layers of linen that protected her mummified features. Meresamun is thought to have worked and lived in the temple of Thebes around 800BC. According to the inscription she was a priestess-musician who served as a ‘Singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun’. The scans suggest she was about 5ft 5in and in her late 20s or early 30s when she died.