US museum unwraps a mummy's story with CT scan

Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the oldest intact Egyptian mummies.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week with a medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby, its 4,000-year-old mummy, in hopes of piecing together more information about the mummy itself and better understanding the early history of the mummification process.

While it isn't the first time a mummy has gone under the digital knife, only a handful from the time period have been examined in this fashion. The information gathered will help provide greater detail of the body, create a 3D digital model and even reconstruct the face of the mummy that has been on display off and on since being acquired by the museum in 1953.