Egypt
This lovely coffin and mask belong to a woman who died in the Ptolemaic period and was probably no beauty when she died.
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/39257/mummy-facing-more-scrutiny
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Education Kit Based On Analysis Of Mummy Remains
Science Alert The perennial fascination of ancient Egyptian mummies is being used by Queensland University of Technology researcher Dr Stephen Hughes to teach children about the application of physics to the field of archaeology. Dr Hughes has produced...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Patient Aged 2,500 In For Tests
BBC News A team of radiographers at a London university have been preoccupied with a patient somewhat older than most - 2,500-year old Egyptian mummy Tahemaa. Specialists at City University in Islington, north London, used a CT scanner to learn more about...
- Mdina's Mummy
This mummy of a woman who died young has recently done its medical checkup. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080428/local/the-mummy-with-a-story-to-tell...
Egypt
Another Victim of the CT scanner
This lovely coffin and mask belong to a woman who died in the Ptolemaic period and was probably no beauty when she died.
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/39257/mummy-facing-more-scrutiny
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Education Kit Based On Analysis Of Mummy Remains
Science Alert The perennial fascination of ancient Egyptian mummies is being used by Queensland University of Technology researcher Dr Stephen Hughes to teach children about the application of physics to the field of archaeology. Dr Hughes has produced...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Patient Aged 2,500 In For Tests
BBC News A team of radiographers at a London university have been preoccupied with a patient somewhat older than most - 2,500-year old Egyptian mummy Tahemaa. Specialists at City University in Islington, north London, used a CT scanner to learn more about...
- Mdina's Mummy
This mummy of a woman who died young has recently done its medical checkup. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080428/local/the-mummy-with-a-story-to-tell...