Researchers Sent an Egyptian Mummy Into a Particle Accelerator–Here’s What They Found

The Hibbard mummy. Northwestern University

Researchers are using a high-energy particle accelerator to peer inside the remains of an ancient Egyptian mummy, which contains the body of a young girl.

The girl is estimated to have been approximately 5 years old when she died nearly 2,000 years ago, just west of the Nile River. Researchers believe she died of malaria or smallpox, according to Northwestern University.