Secrets of 2,300-year-old golden boy mummy revealed by CT scans

**The secrets of a glittering Egyptian mummy known as the “Golden boy”, have been uncovered leaving the occupant of the sarcophagus undisturbed.
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To achieve that, researchers at Cairo University used 21st-century computed tomography or CT scans. Among the lucky researchers was Sahar Saleem, radiology professor at the faculty of medicine of Cairo University.

“I studied a mummy that had been stored for over a century in the basement of Cairo Egyptian Museum – and never been touched before or examined.”

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