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The Swiss Mummy Project (SMP) is a research project based at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM), University of Zurich. The aim of the Swiss Mummy Project is to investigate ancient human mummies of multiple cultural and geographical backgrounds with state-of-the-art scientific methods. This allows gaining insights into the evolution of disease, human variation but also socio-cultural aspects. At the IEM researchers from fields as varied as medicine, anthropology, paleopathology, ancient DNA and proteomics research, egyptology, history, epidemiology, human morphology, and imaging work together on interdisciplinary research questions in the field of Evolutionary Medicine