Alan Billis

Alan Billis (c. 1949 – January 2011) was a British taxi driver who posthumously became the subject of a 2011 scientific experiment to replicate ancient Egyptian mummification techniques. Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Billis volunteered to donate his body to the project led by archaeologist Joann Fletcher and chemist Stephen Buckley. His body was successfully mummified using methods based on archaeological research from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt and is housed at the Gordon Museum of Pathology in London.