Mummy Forensics

In the storage room of a Victorian museum in the heart of northern Britain lies the mummy of a Peruvian man. The team takes a journey back in time, discovering a secret preserved in the skin that challenges history as we know it.

Dr Joann Fletcher and her team are on a mission. They have been called in to solve the mystery of a mummy's demise inside a beautifully painted Egyptian coffin. But none of them are prepared for the grisly tale that they eventually unravel.

A body inside an over-sized coffin sets the team on the trail of their final mystery. What they discover is a tragic tale played out at the highest echelons of Egyptian society, set at the court of one of Egypt's most famous Pharaohs.

The body of a South American mummy has a number of visible wounds, and a large hole in his skull. The team work to find out: was the man a victim of crime?

The team examine a cross-legged Peruvian mummy. Why was it mummified in such a strange position?

In a museum in the heart of England lies a bodiless mummy. The team are called in to discover who he was and whether his death was as grisly as it looks.