ARCE President Emily Teeter is interviewed in a recent issue of Archaeology magazine. In the March/April 2009 cover story, "A Mummy's Life," Dr. Teeter, Research Associate and Coordinator of Special Exhibits for the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, discusses new research undertaken on the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egyptian temple singer Meresamun.

In 2008 the mummy was scanned using a Phillips 256-slice Brilliance iCT scanner at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Meresamun is the only mummy to ever be scanned using such advanced technology, and the resulting images revealed a wealth of information on the condition of the mummy as well as new evidence about the temple singer's life and health.

The mummy of Meresamun is now the star of a new exhibit at the Oriental Institute, "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt," on display until December 6, 2009. The exhibit illustrates the duties of a temple singer and explores what her life was like inside, as well as outside, the temple. A video in the exhibit reports on the earlier computerized examination of the mummy, offering a virtual unwrapping and 3-dimensional reconstructions of her face and body.