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Subject SCIENTISTS RELEASE AUDIO RECREATION OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN’S VOICE IN BREAKTHROUGH STUDY

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Original Message The sound of a 3,000 year-old Egyptian mummy can finally be heard, after engineers 3D printed a version of its vocal tract.

The noise – a short, vowel-like sound – gives a hint at what the ancient mummified individual might have sounded like. But it is only a hint, since scientists are not able to produce anything like speech.

It relied on a host of technology, including precise CT scans that gave a picture of the vocal tract that could then be printed out and used to synthesise a voice.

Such a breakthrough is impossible for most remains, because it relies on perfect preservation of the bodies' soft tissues, and in most cases only the skeleton is left over. But the mummified body of the ancient Egyptian priest Nesyamun was so well preserved that researchers could build a precise recreation of the unique vocal sounds.

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