BATON ROUGE, La.-- He was probably a redhead, tall and in good shape when he died of an unidentified cause by age 30.

That's according to researchers, who used X-rays and a computerized topography scan to learn more about the 2,300-year-old mummy housed at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. The release of their findings coincided with the unveiling of a major renovation of the museum's ancient Egypt gallery.

The research also provided answers to questions left unresolved after X-rays done in the 1980s, and more details about man behind the mummy researchers say was found near Thebes, Egypt.

For example, researchers believe he stood between 5-feet-7 inches and 5-feet-8 inches and weighed between 124 and 132 pounds. They have not identified his race.

The mummy's internal organs are intact, which surprised researchers, and X-rays showed the man, while in good shape otherwise, had numerous broken ribs, said Mary Manhein, director of Louisiana State University's Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services lab where some of the tests were done.

"He died of some sort of trauma," she said.

While the cause of death is unclear -- researchers said he could have been trapped in a mine, hit by a chariot or flying rock or crushed under sand -- they believe he died between the ages of 24 and 30.

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