Egyptologist Joann Fletcher leads a team of forensic scientists through some of Ancient Egypt's best-preserved mummies, running CT scans, DNA tests, and facial reconstructions alongside the older tools of hieroglyphic translation and tomb archaeology. The film moves case by case, tying each mummy to a specific death: signs of violence on a body, disease markers in bone tissue, embalming choices that hint at status or haste. Fletcher and her colleagues cross-reference tomb inscriptions and grave goods with what the scans actually show, sometimes confirming the ancient record and sometimes contradicting it. The approach treats mummies as evidence rather than curiosities, asking what a scan can prove that a papyrus cannot, and where the physical remains still leave room for guesswork. Running at feature length, the film covers enough individual cases to function as a broad survey of how forensic pathology has changed Egyptology over the last few decades, with location filming inside tombs and laboratories carrying the visual side of the investigation.