Description

When Nesyamun died his voice fell silent but 3 000 years on a team of researchers have brought it back to life. They have done so by producing a 3D-printed voice box based on Nesyamun's vocal tract which was scanned to establish its precise dimensions. By using the vocal tract with an artificial larynx sound they synthesised a vowel sound meant to be similar to the voice of Nesyamun. Nesyamun was a priest at the temple of Amun in the Karnak complex at Thebes (modern-day Luxor). He was a waab priest which meant he had reached a certain level of purification and was therefore permitted to approach the statue of Amun in the most sacred inner sanctum of the temple.