The last step was to coat the mummy in warm resin and wrap it from head to foot in layer after layer of linen strips. About 150 yards—the length of one and a half football fields—were used.

Excavating tombs in Egypt 17 years ago, diggers of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...