Ever wondered what the voice of an Egyptian mummy sounds like?

An Egyptian archeologist inspects a mummy in a limestone sarcophagus discovered along many finds in 4,500 years-old communal tombs dedicated to high priests in an archaeological mission in Al Ghoreifa in Minya, about 300km south of Egypt's capital Cairo. Photo: AFP

Researchers say they've mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, 3D printing and an electronic larynx.

In a paper published recently by the journal Scientific Reports, the authors say the technique allowed them to produce a single sound - somewhere between the vowels in "bed" and "bad".