A 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Speaks. Really.

The priest once known as Nesyamun has been a man of few words for the past 3,000 years—which is how things go when you've been dead since about 1000 BCE. But according to a study just published in Scientific Reports, he recently spoke in a lab in the United Kingdom, and the single syllable the mummified Nesyamun uttered could open the door to an entire chorus of voices from the ancient Egyptian past.