His remains were discovered in 1881 among other reburied royal mummies at the archeological site, Deir el Bahari, in southern Egypt. The mummy is beautifully decorated with flower garlands and has a lifelike face mask that covers the face and neck and is inset with colorful stones. Within his wrappings, the pharaoh donned 30 amulets and a golden girdle with gold beads.

“We show that CT imaging can be profitably used in anthropological and archeological studies on mummies, including those from other civilizations, for example Peru,” said Saleem and her co-author, Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass.


Back in 2020, researchers in Britain utilized CT and 3D printing to replicate a sound unique to the vocal range of Nesyamun, a 3,000-year-old mummy who lived as a priest during the reign of Pharaoh Rameses XI around 1100 B.C.E. Scanning from the larynx to the lips, up to its boundaries — including the nose — the researchers created a 3D model of the mummy’s vocal tract. They used the artificial larynx to reproduce a sound that was interpreted as falling between the vowel sounds used in the English words, "bed" and "bad".

The findings on Amenhotep I were published in Frontiers of Medicine.

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