Established in 2010, the Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank is a distinctive research project dedicated to the study of animal mummies and their associated materials held in museum collections around the world outside Egypt. Based at The University of Manchester, UK, the project employs a non-invasive methodology that combines archival research, oral histories, macroscopic documentation such as descriptions, photographs, and measurements, and advanced imaging techniques including X-ray, CT, and micro-CT.

To create a centralised point of access for this material, the online database was launched in 2017, providing an important resource for researchers worldwide engaged in the study of ancient Egyptian animal mummies.

The project team gratefully acknowledges the museums that form the foundation of this research, the scholars investigating the Egyptological and scientific questions surrounding animal mummies, and The Leverhulme Trust, whose research project grant (RPG-2013-143) made the database possible.