Egypt
Animal Mummies – X-radiography, and coming soon – CT scans!
Brooklyn Museum (Lisa Bruno)
These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS. In earlier blog posts we described the CT scanning of Brooklyn’s human mummies, but we have yet to CT scan our animals.
Falcon X-rayAs you may remember from an earlier post, Dr. Fischetti and a colleague came out to the Conservation Lab to look at a group of x-rays of animal mummies. It was at that time that we discussed the possibility of CT scanning the animal mummies.
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Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies Database Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods...
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Open Access Database - Animal Mummies
Ancient World Online See the above page for links. Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings...
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Lecture: Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies, Salima Ikram
Daily Beacon (Elizabeth Storey) This page reports on a lecture delivered by Salima Ikram in Cairo, about animal mummification in ancient Egypt. Animal mummies, long overshadowed by human mummies, hold much more useful information about ancient Egypt than...
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Brooklyn Museum Prepares Mummy
Sincere thanks to Sally Williams, Public Information Officer at the Brooklyn Museum, for letting me know in a comment to a previous post that The Brooklyn Museum is also preparing a mummy to tour in an exhibition To Live Forever, that will...
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Animal Mummy Cults
Here is an excellent article and interactive features on animal mummies with lots of interesting pictures. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/animal-mummies/williams-text...
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