Article 4YATQ Talk like an Egyptian: mummy's voice heard 3,000 years after death

Talk like an Egyptian: mummy's voice heard 3,000 years after death

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Nicola Davis
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Researchers in UK recreate Nesyamun's sound using 3D version of his vocal tract

The "voice" of an ancient Egyptian priest has been heard for the first time since he died and was mummified 3,000 years ago, researchers have said.

Nesyamun lived under the pharaoh Rameses XI, who reigned around the beginning of the 11th century BC.

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