We know that 3D printing is being used as a tool to help preserve artefacts and share cultural histories, but apparently it is also being used to preserve sound, so to speak.

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A team from the Royal Holloway University of London and the University of York have used 3D printing to recreate the vocal tract of a 3,000-year-old mummy which was able to emit a unique sound. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team explained how it used a combination of CT scanning and 3D printing to reproduce the vocal tract belonging to the Egyptian priest Nesyamun, who lived about 3,000 years ago.

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We now have some idea as to what the ancient priest, whose mummified body now resides at the Leeds City Museum, would have sounded like. The two 3D printed halves […]

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