For example, he believes it may be possible to examine substances within a mummy, like embalming liquid.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Frank Ruhli is head of the Swiss Mummy Project at the University of Zurich.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

The team raised his mummy to reach more jewelry and artifacts.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Ruhli and his team of researchers at the Swiss Mummy Institute have just completed the first feasibility study of how they could use the technology to reveal a mummy's secrets, without damaging the mummy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

It's also not using any sort of radiation, (which could destroy DNA remnants of the mummies.) "And finally, by using this Terahertz imaging, you eventually may be able to look at the substances within the mummy,for example, the embalming liquid used in the Egyptian way of embalming.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05