Science Scientists recreate sound of Egyptian mummy's voice from 3,000 years ago Xeni Jardin

mummies Someone decapitated an 800-year-old mummy and ran off with its head David Pescovitz

tattoos From Bears Ears in Utah, a 2,000-year-old tattooing tool is rediscovered Xeni Jardin

ink Popular tattoos 5,000 years ago were sheep Clive Thompson

happy mutants Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Now with Extra Monsters): At Least One Monster Per Paragraph! This Is Our Guarantee! Marc Laidlaw

Trump’s space death ray, Hillary Clinton’s liberation, and alien mummies, in this week’s tabs Peter Sheridan

History Controversy over DNA sequencing of 90 Egyptian mummies Andrea James

books Morbid Curiosities – A dark and delightful glimpse into 18 macabre collections Wink

art Great works of 16th-20th century art painted with ground-up mummies David Pescovitz

egypt King Tut had chronic medical problems, but his beard falling off wasn't one of them Rob Beschizza

Games The Dwarven Lord of Kickstarter Ethan Gilsdorf

happy mutants Fantasy Sports: dungeon crawl ends in epic, eldritch basketball game Cory Doctorow

books Memento Mori: the beautiful ways we have kept the dead among the living Cory Doctorow

The magician who astounded the world by conjuring spirits and talking with mummies Mark Frauenfelder

offworld Play it now: Jostle Parent Leigh Alexander

Exceedingly eerie preserved corpses of the Palermo Catacombs Ivan Cenzi