This symposium was a small but heartfelt tribute to a man that contributed so much to the field of mummy studies and to whom we shall permanently owe our gratitude for what he accomplished as a scientist, and for his honest and generous friendship.Many of us were very lucky to share moments of our professional life with Arthur, to learn from him, and to work with him.His knowledge of medicine was enormous, and he had a sharp eye for spotting diseases in archaeological human remains.It was these two skills that made him such a good and reliable paleopathologist.Arthur was a member of the Cronos Project in the late 1980's and early 1990's, one in which the study of the Guanche mummies of the Canary Islands became the foundation for the World Congress on Mummy Studies.That project introduced the field of the scientific study of mummies as a discipline in it's own right, after the pioneering work by Rosalie David in Manchester in the 1970's, and the creation of the Paleopathology Association by Aidan and Eve Cockburn in the same decade.Since that incredible first meeting in 1992, twenty seven years have come and gone during which ten World Congresses on Mummy Studies have been held in different parts of the World: Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife (