In the storage room of a Victorian Museum in Britain, lies the mummy of a Peruvian man. He has been trussed up in typical Peruvian style to hold his body in a seated posture, and like many Peruvian mummies he appears to be screaming.
Dr. Joann Fletcher is on a mission. The Mummy Investigation Team @ York University have been called to look at a mysterious case; a female mummy inside a beautifully painted Egyptian coffin. There's one catch, they can't open the coffin.
A body inside a coffin for which it is too large, missing genitals and an obvious overbite are clues which set the Mummy Team on the trail of their next mystery. They know who the coffin was made for; a female Egyptian temple dancer.
When the Mummy Team is called to look at the body of a South American mummy on display in a mansion, they believe they're onto their easiest case yet. The mummy has a number of visible wounds and a large hole in its skull.
In a London storage facility lies a Peruvian mummy that hasn't been seen in almost 100 years. Most mummies from Peru were bundled in a fetal position or laid out flat, but this mummy has been buried in a cross-legged posture.
In a museum in the heart of England lies a bodiless mummy. Dr. Joann Fletcher and York University's Mummy Investigation Team are called in to discover who he was and whether his death was as grizzly as it looks.