Scientists reveal new details about ‘screaming' Egyptian mummy's life and death

With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 in a tomb near Luxor. Still fascinated by the ‘screaming woman’ who died some 3,500 years ago, a different team of scientists recently used CT scans to reveal details about the mummy’s morphology, health conditions, and preservation. Their findings, published in a journal, revealed that the woman was 48 years old when she died. Certain aspects of the process used to mummify her stood out.