including the construction of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak. His mummy, found in 1881, is one of the best-preserved examples from ancient Egypt.

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

As head of the Swiss Mummy Project at the University of Zurich, Rühli has been fascinated by the medical insights offered by studying preserved ancient remains from Egypt and elsewhere.