Researchers say they have mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummified Egyptian priest by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, 3D printing and an electronic larynx.
The researchers chose Nesyamun's mummy for the project because the soft tissue in the throat was reasonably intactCo-author John Schofield said the voice sound of the mummy makes history more multidimensional for visitors
In a paper published on Thursday by the journal Scientific Reports, the authors say the voice recreation technique allowed them to produce a single sound — somewhere between the vowels in"bed" and"bad". They then produced a 3D-printed voice box based on the mummified priest's vocal tract and connected it to an artificial larynx and specialised loudspeaker to reproduce the vowel sound of Nesyamun's voice.However, the eerie tone is unlikely to be a precise reflection of the speech of Egyptian priest Nesyamun, because the tongue has lost much of its bulk over three millennia.
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