Egypt
- Uwo 'ground Zero' For Mummy Studies: Researcher
Toronto Sun Two University of Western Ontario researchers have won international grants for their projects, one of which will make the university the "ground zero" of mummy studies. Using CT scans to help him look inside mummies, researcher Andrew Nelson...
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans
sky.com (David Crabtree) With photograph of scan. Amazing new pictures have been released of attempts to unravel a 1,700-year-old murder mystery. But even state-of-the-art 21st century techniques have been foiled by the case. Three Egyptian mummies from...
- Mummy Face Reconstruction
The Western Star Christian Corbet knows she died young, although he doesn’t know how she perished. The forensic artist is working on a mystery nearly 3,000 years old — an Egyptian mummy. The remains are part of the Royal Ontario Museum’s collection...
- 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...
- More Re Three Mummies To Be Scanned By Uwo
The London Free Press Covered in protective gauze and wrapped in layers of ancient bandages, the lives of three mummies that arrived yesterday at UWO are shrouded in mystery. But hopefully not for long. The unusual guests, who may have lived as long...
Egypt
Breathing new life into mummies
Western News (The University of Western Ontario)
Using computed tomography, more commonly known as CT-scans, a research team at The University of Western Ontario hopes to unravel the mysteries of three Egyptian mummies on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum.
One of the recently scanned mummies was of a wab-priest excavated by legendary Egyptologist Henri Edouard Naville from Deir el-Bahri and dated to the 21st Dynasty.
See the above page for more.
Using computed tomography, more commonly known as CT-scans, a research team at The University of Western Ontario hopes to unravel the mysteries of three Egyptian mummies on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum.
The CT-scans, which generate three-dimensional images of internal matter, are expected to deliver basic details to the researchers, such as gender and date of death.
It is also possible that artifacts, such as jewelry and amulets may be discovered beneath the bandages. “This exercise provides us with a very exciting opportunity to use the latest in what medical science has to offer to breathe new life into these messengers from the past,” says Andrew Nelson of Western’s Department of
Anthropology and a research associate of the ROM.
One of the recently scanned mummies was of a wab-priest excavated by legendary Egyptologist Henri Edouard Naville from Deir el-Bahri and dated to the 21st Dynasty.
See the above page for more.
- Uwo 'ground Zero' For Mummy Studies: Researcher
Toronto Sun Two University of Western Ontario researchers have won international grants for their projects, one of which will make the university the "ground zero" of mummy studies. Using CT scans to help him look inside mummies, researcher Andrew Nelson...
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans
sky.com (David Crabtree) With photograph of scan. Amazing new pictures have been released of attempts to unravel a 1,700-year-old murder mystery. But even state-of-the-art 21st century techniques have been foiled by the case. Three Egyptian mummies from...
- Mummy Face Reconstruction
The Western Star Christian Corbet knows she died young, although he doesn’t know how she perished. The forensic artist is working on a mystery nearly 3,000 years old — an Egyptian mummy. The remains are part of the Royal Ontario Museum’s collection...
- 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...
- More Re Three Mummies To Be Scanned By Uwo
The London Free Press Covered in protective gauze and wrapped in layers of ancient bandages, the lives of three mummies that arrived yesterday at UWO are shrouded in mystery. But hopefully not for long. The unusual guests, who may have lived as long...