A CT scan of a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has revealed she is not 14 as initially thought but at least in her mid 20s.. Ta-Kush, who is a visitor favourite at Maidstone Museum, is being ...

Ta-Kush is believed to be a 14-year-old girl who died about 2,700 years ago. But museum staff say the results of a CT scan on the mummy and coffin could even rewrite history.

Similar reconstructions were made with Ta Kush, the mummy at Maidstone Museum. ... the historic accounts have been accepted as gospel but the scanning of Egyptian mummies has challenged these ideas." ...

Using non-invasive, digital techniques, Egyptian scientists have used three-dimensional computerized tomography (CT) scanning to unwrap the 3,500-year-old mummy and study its contents.

Scientists have identified a 2,600-year-old mummy kept in an Australian museum as a Kushite princess from ancient Egypt.

Archaeologists Discover Paintings of Goddess in 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Coffin Researchers lifted the ancient Egyptian mummy out of her coffin for the first time in 100 years and, to their ...

Conservators discovered previously unknown paintings inside the Egyptian mummy Ta-Kr-Hb, at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland. The paintings depict the goddess Amentet in a red dress.

The Egyptian mummy wasn't a fully preserved corpse, but rather a decapitated, mutilated, bandage-wrapped head that archaeologists found on top of a coffin when they excavated a tomb back in 1915.

The digital unwrapping revealed tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time since the mummy was discovered in 1881.