Egypt
ABC13
This story doesn't actually mention which country the mummy under discussion comes from, never mind which area, but putting the information together it seems safe to assume she is Egyptian.
- Spurlock Mummy Back Under The Scanner
The News-Gazette (Debra Pressey) The first time a CT scan was done on a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois, medical technology wasn't sharp enough to help solve some of the mysteries about the body...
- Mummy Baby Injuries Assessed - Was It A Fall Or Foul Play?
cambridge-news (Jack Grove) Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital may have uncovered a 1,700-year-old murder during tests on an ancient Egyptian child mummy. Radiographers at the Cambridge hospital made the macabre discovery after they conducted X-ray scans...
- Scan For 2000 Year Old Mummy Of Child
The Age (Richard Macey) LIKE an expectant father, Michael Turner paced the floor anxiously yesterday. A few metres away the mummy of an Egyptian child who died, aged about seven 2000 years ago, was undergoing one of the most thorough examinations modern...
- Ct Scan Shows Mummy Younger Than Thought
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07123/783077-115.stm "Refinement of the scans vividly revealed that an 8-inch wooden stake had been inserted into the skull and through the upper spine, possibly to support the head during preparation of the remains. The...
- Spurlock Museums Child Mummy
Back in 1989 the Spurlock Museum of the University of Illinois received a donation of a child's mummy from Roman period Egypt. The mummy has been xrayed and now CT. scanned yet still the sex of the child's mummy remains unanswered as...
Egypt
CAT scan of a child mummy from MFAH collection
ABC13
This story doesn't actually mention which country the mummy under discussion comes from, never mind which area, but putting the information together it seems safe to assume she is Egyptian.
It's been a mystery since the time of Christ -- a tiny mummy now at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Was it a girl or boy? Was the child a victim of violence? Those questions couldn't be answered until a 60-second CAT scan at the University of Texas. . . .The 3D scan does show broken ribs, but the Houston experts believe it was from being compressed, not injury.
"We learned the child was between two and four, that she was in generally good health from her skeletal remains," Marzio explained. "That's infinitely more than we knew before."
The paintings on her wrappings show the goddesses of the underworld, there to protect her in the next life.
A quick scoot around the web would indicate that the above is the re-hash of an older story dating to August this year, and reported on a news page on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston website where there is much more detailed information on the analysis:
From the length of the bones and the number of teeth, Oldham estimated the child´s age at 3 to 4 years old. Initially, the child was thought to be about 2 years old. The images further confirmed that the child was placed on something wooden-like before wrapping, probably the remains of an embalming board, a detail that X-rays can´t describe because of their limited color variation. Layers of the cloth used to wrap the child could be delineated where there is air trapped between them. The scan also allowed the height of the skeleton to be measured for the first time. The calculation of 30 inches is an approximation, Oldham explained, "because of the lack of integrity of the disc spaces and musculature that maintains a person´s height" as well as the effect of compression with mummification.
With only the skeleton, it is impossible to determine a cause of death. But Oldham said the skeleton appeared to be intact and there is no evidence of trauma. There are some fractures in the neck, but Oldham speculates those occurred from a combination of factors from the initial interment to subsequent movement of the mummy over the centuries, which may have caused some settling of the bones.
- Spurlock Mummy Back Under The Scanner
The News-Gazette (Debra Pressey) The first time a CT scan was done on a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois, medical technology wasn't sharp enough to help solve some of the mysteries about the body...
- Mummy Baby Injuries Assessed - Was It A Fall Or Foul Play?
cambridge-news (Jack Grove) Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital may have uncovered a 1,700-year-old murder during tests on an ancient Egyptian child mummy. Radiographers at the Cambridge hospital made the macabre discovery after they conducted X-ray scans...
- Scan For 2000 Year Old Mummy Of Child
The Age (Richard Macey) LIKE an expectant father, Michael Turner paced the floor anxiously yesterday. A few metres away the mummy of an Egyptian child who died, aged about seven 2000 years ago, was undergoing one of the most thorough examinations modern...
- Ct Scan Shows Mummy Younger Than Thought
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07123/783077-115.stm "Refinement of the scans vividly revealed that an 8-inch wooden stake had been inserted into the skull and through the upper spine, possibly to support the head during preparation of the remains. The...
- Spurlock Museums Child Mummy
Back in 1989 the Spurlock Museum of the University of Illinois received a donation of a child's mummy from Roman period Egypt. The mummy has been xrayed and now CT. scanned yet still the sex of the child's mummy remains unanswered as...