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Today in ‘guess we didn’t learn anything as a species’, someone’s 3D-printed the throat of an Egyptian priest to see what his voice sounded like. The cute thing is that in doing so, they actually fulfilled his wish - as indicated on his sarcophagus. The less cute thing is do we want to accidentally raise a 5000-yo demon? Because that’s how you raise a 5000-yo demon.

Putting aside the joke that “it’s old and Egyptian therefore it must be evil”, this is amazing:

It is believed to be the first project of its kind to successfully recreate the voice of a dead person through artificial means. In the future, the researchers hope to use computer models to recreate full sentences in Nesyamun’s voice.

#please i’m begging you please realise how awesome this is#instead of making mummy jokes#yes it’s funny but this wasn’t an eeeevil demonic entity#this was a real human man who lived 3000 years ago#his name was nesyamun and he was a priest#a *person*#and now we can hear his voice

“Archaeology professor John Schofield, also of the University of York, told the BBC it was Nesyamun’s “express wish” to be heard in the afterlife, which was part of his religious belief system.

“It’s actually written on his coffin - it was what he wanted,” Prof Schofield said. “In a way, we’ve managed to make that wish come true.““

This is amazing!!! And mind-boggling! I just… wow!