Egypt
Anniston Star (Patrick McCreless)
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Egypt
Another mummy under the scanner
Anniston Star (Patrick McCreless)
One of Anniston’s oldest residents has kept her secrets hidden behind carefully wrapped linen bandages for more than 2,000 years.
But after a visit to Regional Medical Center, those ancient secrets finally will be revealed.
Anniston Museum of Natural History officials plan to transport Tasherytpamenekh (pronounced Ta-SHER-eet-pa-MEN-eck), one of their two Ptolemaic-era Egyptian mummies, to the Tyler Center at RMC Aug. 18 for a state-of-the-art, 64-slice computerized tomography, or CT, scan.
The information from the scan will then be sent to the Ohio-based Phillips Corporation, where the data will be used to render a three-dimensional forensic image of the mummified woman, something never before possible.
“We are all very eager to see the images resulting from this scan and also from the subsequent forensic reconstruction,” Anniston Museum Director Cheryl Bragg said in a press release. “It’s a great honor for us to be a part of this, and we look forward to being able to share a lot of new information with the public as well as other scientific institutions.”
The CT scanner, which RMC acquired about a year ago, is typically used by the hospital to diagnose ailments in patients’ chests, abdomens and pelvic areas. The device combines a series of X-ray views from many different angles to create cross-sectional images of tissue and bone inside a person’s body.
- Brooklyn Museum Mummy Under The Scanner
NBC New York A hospital CT scan device helped look back in time Thursday, examining a mummy more than 2,600 years old from ancient Egypt. At North Shore University hospital in Manhasset, hospital doctors and researchers from the Brooklyn Museum used...
- 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...
- Strange Bones In Colchester Mummy
The Independent, UK (Sean Williams) The skull of an ancient Egyptian mummy in Colchester is packed with 'strange bones', a CT-scan has revealed. The scan on 2,500-year-old Lady Ta-Hathor yesterday also revealed an odd bundle between her thighs,...
- More Re Discovery That Lady Hor Is Actually A Man
Newsday (Erik Badia) With a photograph of the upper section of the mummy. Egyptologists from the Brooklyn Museum and doctors from North Shore University Hospital learned Tuesday through a CT scan that a 2,500-year-old mummy previously thought to be a...
- Meresamun To Go Under Oi Scanner
Chicago Tribune When doctors at the University of Chicago put the first patient through their new cutting-edge CT scanner, they weren't very concerned about her health. But they did hope to find clues into how she died, 3,000 years ago. Meresamun,...