Nesyamun was an ancient Egyptian priest who sang chants as part of his ritual duties at the temple of Karnak in Thebes during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses XI. Now, 3,000 years after his death ...

Scientists used a 3D-printed vocal tract to recreate the sound of his voice. LONDON -- More than 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, there lived a priest named Nesyamun who chanted and sang the ...

The tone is unlikely to be an exact replication of the speech of Egyptian priest Nesyamun, whose mummified body the researchers worked with, because the tongue has lost much of its bulk over 3,000 ...

While the imagery bears a striking resemblance to the cartoon character ... a woman who was a chantress of the high priest Djehouti, according to the Egyptian Gazette. Researchers started ...

The priesthood helped preserve old traditions that underpinned Egyptian culture and its hierarchy helped keep order within society. Religion and priests were central to everyday life in ancient Egypt.

Around 1100 BC, during the reign of Ramses XI, an Egyptian scribe and priest named Nesyamun spent his life singing and chanting during liturgies at the Karnak temple in Thebes. As was the custom ...