ZCorp Technology Provides Answers in 3000-year-old Murder Investigation

In the unusual investigation of the contents of a sealed mummy sarcophagus, an important breakthrough came from an unlikely source when an architectural visualisation agency used its ZCorp printing technology to replicate an exact representation of the occupant’s head.

A team of Egyptologists at the Newcastle museum, headed up by Gill Scott, was working on the puzzling case of a sealed sarcophagus. During the investigation, the team had to undertake tricky detective work to try to decipher more about the person inside and why there were so many anomalies at the time of internment.  

Theories were established early on about how and why the woman had died. The first indication that there was something strange about this case came from hieroglyphic experts who uncovered mistakes that had been made with

the symbols used for the Mummy’s name and gender.  According to Egyptian beliefs, this lack of clear identity meant that the person’s spirit would have not been able to live on in the afterlife. If this mummy, nicknamed by the team as ‘The Lady’, had suffered an unnatural death, she would have also have been intended for death in her afterlife.