Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.

My name is Dan Triver, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna

to Chinsky and once again we have gathered around the microphones of our four favourite

facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.

Starting with you, Anna.

My fact this week is that during out of hours periods, hospitals CT scanners are sometimes

used to scan Egyptian mummies.

Wow, it's so cool.

It's so weird.

This is because mummies need scanning sometimes to find out what's inside them so it's

much less invasive as you can imagine than actually unwrapping your mummies which can

sort of cause the mummies to disintegrate as you do it and you want to know what jewels

they've got in them or what state their bones are in, stuff like that and about, well actually

almost since the dawn of X-rays they realise this would be really useful for scanning mummies.

And since the year 2000 apparently it's been a routine use for hospital CT scanners

is to use them on mummies.

There are various hospitals in the UK that do it.

I think Manchester Children's Hospital does a very strong line in loaning its CT scanners

out.

I think it was lead hospital, I can't remember exactly but I read one of them saying

that they did it in the night or out of hours because they didn't want to scare the patients

...