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An ancient funerary figurine whose well-travelled history includes links to Tutankhamun and the set of Downton Abbey has been donated to the

The University of Sydney is set to re-open its Chau Chak Wing Museum on 18 October, with Sarah Goffman’s new Applied Arts exhibition the main attraction for new and returning visitors.

Candace Richards, assistant Curator of the University of Sydney’s Nicholson Collection, has always been interested in board games. As a child she played backgammon, and she was glad to turn this pastime into a study after the University of Sydney uncovered five different board games at the Paphos Theatre in Cyprus. Now, she has a chance to share both her love of  games and archaeology, with Australian audiences as part of the Kafenio events focused on Greek culture through board games and conversation with free talks and hands-on experiences from tonight through to 16 April. “Games are a...

Ceremony of Opening the Mouth of the Mummy before the Tomb, c1300BC (Image: Getty) READ MORE Despite the mummified body undergoing a full computed tomography (CT) scan in 1999, the authors rescanned the body for the current study using the latest tech. Using this new visualisation of the dentition and skeleton, the authors determined the mummified individual was a young middle-aged adult. The body scans did not reveal external genitalia, and internal reproductive organs had been removed during the mummification process. However, secondary sexual characteristics of boners including hip bones, ...

3D-rendered CT images of mummified individual showing the carapace and broken sections Photo: Sowada et al, PLOS ONE, courtesy Chau Chak Wing Museum and Macquarie Medical Imaging An ancient Egyptian mummy’s painted mud shell may have been a budget-conscious way of copying elite embalming methods, write researchers in the science journal Plos One. The shell, found under the mummy’s wrappings, was first identified in 1999, but has only now been fully revealed thanks to modern CT scans. It covers the entire body, and was painted white over the head and red over the...