This weekend the British Museum “unwrapped” a 2,800-year-old mummy by use of a high-tech scanner. “Using scanning technology developed by neurological researchers in a London hospital, the British Museum has recreated the kind of public ‘unrolling’ of a mummy that used to draw crowds in the 19th century. In those days irreversible damage was often caused to the remains inside and many mummies were discarded and lost forever.”