A number of scientists from the University of London successfully listened to the sound of the 3,000-year-old Nesyamun mummy.
During his life, Nesyamun was an Egyptian priest who loved to sing and say words of worship at the Karnak Temple, Thebes, Egypt.
Quoted by The New York Times, with the help of 3D voice channels that are made similar to the mouth and throat of Nesyamun and scanned through CT scans.
"The sound that comes out because the larynx is alive again," said Scientist David Howard.
The success of Howard and the team was published through a scientific journal entitled Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun 'True of Voice' and uploaded on the Nature.com website.
Mummy Nesyamun issued "ah" and "eh" sounds and two words namely "bad" and "bed".
When Nesyamun began to make a sound, Howard used a loudspeaker that had been embedded with 3D sound stream. Then, he connected the speakers to the computer to form electronic waves.
"One day, it is very possible for [Nesyamun] to produce other words and be similar to us [humans]," he said.
In addition, Howard and the team plan to modify the computer software used to transmit the sound from the 3D voice channel, to estimate the size and movement of the tongue and the position of Nesyamun's jaw.
Nevertheless, a number of scientists assess the sound produced by mummies need a deeper study.
Piero Cosi, an Italian scientist from the Institute of Cognitive Sciences & Technologies, said that the use of 3D sound streams has not been able to produce original sounds from the mummy.
"3D geometrical description, can not rebuild the original sound [Nesyamun]," he stressed.