Egypt
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- Analysis Of Mummy Tchaenhotep.
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Egypt
3D Photos Reveal Brainless, 2,500-Year-Old Mummy
Fox News (Jennifer Welsh)
With photo.
CT scans of suggest this mummy was a male who died at age 40 (a relatively mature age by ancient Egyptian standards), and lived in Lower Egypt sometime between the 20th and 26th dynasties.
This mummy seems to be missing a brain and other vital organs, new images reveal, and the finding suggests the man held a high status when alive 2,500 years ago in ancient Egypt
The images indicate that embalmers removed the man's brain and major organs and replaced them with rolls of linen, a superior embalming method used only for those of high status, researchers at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History said in a statement.
Wrapped in linen and reverently laid to rest, mummies hold intriguing clues to life and death in ancient Egypt and around the world.
When this mummy was transferred to the Smithsonian from the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in the late 1950s, it was partially unwrapped, and very little was known about the individual, until now.
The new images suggest the mummy was a male who died at age 40 (a relatively mature age by ancient Egyptian standards), and who lived in Lower Egypt sometime between the 20th and 26th dynasties.
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- Tasmanian Museum Mummy Under The Scanner
The Mercury (Kane Young) Modern technology has helped finally wrap up an age-old debate the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery's ancient Egyptian mummy is, in fact, male. The mummy, plus three stuffed thylacines and five preserved baby thylacines, had...
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Ivanhoe.com With Video "This was a mummy we weren’t allowed to touch," Paul Brown, a biocomputing expert at Stanford, told Ivanhoe. Biocomputing experts -- who study biological applications of computers -- and medical physicists got a detailed look...
- Exhibition: More Re Meresamun
DOTmed News The technology enabled researchers to "see through" the casket to the mummy, still wrapped in her layers of linen bandages. The scanner is able to "peel" each layer away to reveal her skeleton, including what appear to be stones in her eye...
- Analysis Of Mummy Tchaenhotep.
http://tinyurl.com/bjmms The analysis of mummy of Tchaenhotep have been released. The mummy, which was removed from the Valley of the Kings in 1903, had been damaged during a 1937 flood in Lousville, when a piano landed on the mummy, and damaged the leg...