A CT scan of a 1,000-year-old statue of Chinese Buddhist master master Liuquan revealed the mummy inside.
Researchers at the Netherlands' Meander Medical Center also used an endoscope to acquire samples from within the mummy's body cavities. From the NL Times:
…Among all kinds of rotten material in the space where there had one been organs, (the researchers) found paper scraps that are printed with ancient Chinese characters. Heggelman took a CT scan that beautifully shows how the mummy looks inside and took samples of bone material for DNA testing.
"1000-YEAR-OLD CHINESE MUMMY GETS CT SCAN IN AMERSFOORT"
