The large state exhibition "Egyptian Mummies - Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs" at Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, (06 October 2007 to 24 March 2008) under the patronage of the First Lady of Egypt, Suzanne Thabet Mubarak, and of the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, Günther H. Oettingen, gets to the bottom of the origins of the Egypt belief of the dead and asks for its cultural-historical background. Numerous mummies and animal mummies as well as about 300 high-calibre loan items from international museums let the visitors dive into the concepts of thereafter and belief of the advanced civilization at the Nile.

Mannheim, Germany - An exhibition of 70 mummies from round the globe is to open Sunday at a German museum, complete with three- dimensional X-ray pictures to reveal probable causes of death. The bodies, some naturally mummified and other embalmed, were given computer tomography (CT) scans by university hospital doctors to reveal symptoms of tuberculosis, arthritic joints and tumours.
The Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in the south-western city of Mannheim says the show, till March 24, is the biggest ever devoted to ancient preserved bodies and follows the chilling discovery that the museum had 19 mummies in its own store.