Threat of the mummy's curse failed to deter the scholars in Manchester who unwrapped Mummy No. 1770 - the first ancient Egyptian mummy to be scientifically investigated in this country since the turn of the century. But what exactly is a mummy? Why did the ancient Egyptians preserve their dead in this way? And why was the Manchester mummy buried with gold nipples and a false phallus? Chronicle records how modern science can tell us much that is new about ancient Egyptian society and shows how the 2,000-year-old mummy was brought back to life. Re-aired 25 May 1979
