Looking under bandages: Experts use CT scans to study remains of Egyptian mummy discovered in ancient city of Thebes

Having lived 2,400 years ago, this Egyptian probably never thought that he would be subjected to the ignominies of being prodded and poked in a 21^st Century French hospital, the Daily Mail reports. 

The mummy was found among the tombstones of Thebes and brought to France where it was examined in the taphonomy unit at the Roger Salengro hospital, in Lille and the city’s natural history museum.

Radiologist Emilie Dodret, forensic scientist Valery Edouin, Judith Pargamin, the director of Lille's natural history museum and anatomy teacher Xavier Demondion examined the remains before it was scanned at the hospital.

The hospital has the latest technology to enable new paleontological research. Taphonomy is the study of decaying organisms over time and how they become fossilized.

It was not just the mummy that was analyzed by the taphonomy unit as they also experimented on a fossilized crocodile.