An Egyptian mummy nearly 3,000 years old is to be examined using the latest in NHS imaging technology.

Nesperennub, a male body enclosed in a linen and plaster case within a 1.5m-long coffin, will have a whole-body computerised tomography (CT) scan at University College Hospital on Monday to see if it will yield any more of its secrets.

Experts from the British Museum asked for Nesperennub to be scanned at UCH as the hospital uses the latest CT technology that allows individual images to be created at a thickness of 0.6mm.

Two radiographers from the hospital will take about four hours over a series of detailed scans on behalf of experts from the museum's Department of Egyptology...

The mummy first visited the trust in 2004 to have a CT but subsequent improvements in technology mean more could potentially be discovered.

Scientists to use NHS scan on mummy, PA via The Guardian, UK, December 09, 2007.

cf. Egyptian mummy given NHS scan, PA via The Buxton Advertiser, UK, December 08, 2007.