Egypt
Anniston Star
With an excellent 16-photograph slideshow.
- Ct Scan Peers Inside Anniston Mummy
The Anniston Star (Patrick McCreless) With video. Anniston Museum of Natural History employees anxiously sat in the CT imaging lobby at Regional Medical Center Wednesday evening –- as if waiting for a friend or relative in the examining room. They’d...
- Ipswich Museum Celebrates Opening Of New Egyptian Gallery
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) This Saturday, on the 7th of August, the Ipswich Museum celebrates the grand reopening of its Egyptian Gallery. At the centre of the new set-up is the mummy of Lady Tahathor, complete with her sarcophagus. Excitingly, the results...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- Berkshire Museum Mummy Will Undergo Ct Scan
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_5934385?source=most_viewed"The county's favorite mummy is getting another CT scan. And starting Monday, visitors will be able to get a glimpse of Pahat, the Berkshire Museum's 2,000-year-old iconic artifact, as...
Egypt
Another mummy under the scanner - Tasherytpamenekh
Anniston Star
With an excellent 16-photograph slideshow.
For years, we’ve known her name, spelled out in hieroglyphs on the painted paper covering her body: “Tasherytpamenekh, justified of voice forever and ever.”
It’s pronounced Ta-SHER-eet-pa-MEN-eck, and it means “daughter of Pamenekh.”
Now we know even more about the Anniston Museum of Natural History’s mummy, thanks to images released this week from a high-tech CT scan at Regional Medical Center.
The scans, according to Dr. Robert Garner of RMC, revealed a remarkably well-preserved skeleton for a 2,300-year-old woman.
She had strong bones and good teeth, signs that she ate well, and was probably in her 20s. She might have been wealthy; her joints show none of the stress that would have marked her as a laborer.
She has no lungs, or stomach, or liver. Her organs were taken out during the mummification process. (Her brain was removed by sticking a long hook up her nose.) Even if her organs remained, Garner said they would be unrecognizable now.
There was no jewelry on her body. There might never have been, or it might have been stolen by grave robbers.
The big mystery, though, remains: What killed her?
- Ct Scan Peers Inside Anniston Mummy
The Anniston Star (Patrick McCreless) With video. Anniston Museum of Natural History employees anxiously sat in the CT imaging lobby at Regional Medical Center Wednesday evening –- as if waiting for a friend or relative in the examining room. They’d...
- Ipswich Museum Celebrates Opening Of New Egyptian Gallery
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) This Saturday, on the 7th of August, the Ipswich Museum celebrates the grand reopening of its Egyptian Gallery. At the centre of the new set-up is the mummy of Lady Tahathor, complete with her sarcophagus. Excitingly, the results...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- Berkshire Museum Mummy Will Undergo Ct Scan
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_5934385?source=most_viewed"The county's favorite mummy is getting another CT scan. And starting Monday, visitors will be able to get a glimpse of Pahat, the Berkshire Museum's 2,000-year-old iconic artifact, as...