Egypt
- 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,...
- Dental Disease Identified In 2000 Year Old Mummy
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2007/04/02/health2/health04.txt"USC orthodontist James Mah may have the oldest client ever - a 2,000-year-old Egyptian girl. His patient was the mummy of a 4- or 5-year-old Egyptian girl. Wrapped and embalmed two...
- More On The Barnum Mummy Of Pa-ib
http://tinyurl.com/yfuumu (zwire.com) Detailed and informative summary of the work completed so far: "The scan was unique because the Toshiba Aquilion CAT Multi-Detection machine uses technology that is only about a year old and few radiology units have...
- Whats That Funk?
I hear this mummy called prince Pentewere over and over but no matter how many times they say it it still does not make it so. The unwrapping of the royal mummies in June of 1886 brought to light this supposed tortured soul. Unknown man "E" has undergone...
- An Unknown Man
The unwrapping of the royal mummies in June of 1886 brought to light this supposed tortured soul. Unknown man "E" has undergone his date with the C.T. scan machine which confirmed something long doubted that the unknown man had been eviscerated and properly...
Egypt
CAT Scan of Philadelphia mummy
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14636650.htm
A mummy from Akmim, which was X-rayed many years ago and was thought as a result to be a young girl, has now been subjected to a CAT scan, which has revealed new information:
The location of the mummy's original X-rays is unknown, but in any event, they would pale in comparison to a CAT scan. The machine uses the same kind of radiation, but is far more sophisticated - the visual equivalent of peeling away the layers of an onion.
The machine takes hundreds of pictures, capturing one narrow "slice" of the patient at a time. The slices, measuring six-tenths of a millimeter, are then compiled to produce a high-resolution three-dimensional image of the patient. The machine is turned on, and almost immediately a ghostly white image reveals the body, her arms at her sides, her fingertips touching at the waist.
The other Akhmim mummies scanned to date - seven out of an eventual 20 or more - have their arms crossed. . . . The iliac crest, the top of the pelvic bone that many people mistakenly identify as their hip bone, has fused. This means the girl is perhaps not a girl at all - she is at least in her late teens. Yet her pelvis does not appear to have undergone the radical change that occurs when women give birth."
The location of the mummy's original X-rays is unknown, but in any event, they would pale in comparison to a CAT scan. The machine uses the same kind of radiation, but is far more sophisticated - the visual equivalent of peeling away the layers of an onion.
The machine takes hundreds of pictures, capturing one narrow "slice" of the patient at a time. The slices, measuring six-tenths of a millimeter, are then compiled to produce a high-resolution three-dimensional image of the patient. The machine is turned on, and almost immediately a ghostly white image reveals the body, her arms at her sides, her fingertips touching at the waist.
The other Akhmim mummies scanned to date - seven out of an eventual 20 or more - have their arms crossed. . . . The iliac crest, the top of the pelvic bone that many people mistakenly identify as their hip bone, has fused. This means the girl is perhaps not a girl at all - she is at least in her late teens. Yet her pelvis does not appear to have undergone the radical change that occurs when women give birth."
For the full story, which follows the scan from the complications of releasing the mummy from its display through to a summary of the information so far revealed, see the above page.
- 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,...
- Dental Disease Identified In 2000 Year Old Mummy
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2007/04/02/health2/health04.txt"USC orthodontist James Mah may have the oldest client ever - a 2,000-year-old Egyptian girl. His patient was the mummy of a 4- or 5-year-old Egyptian girl. Wrapped and embalmed two...
- More On The Barnum Mummy Of Pa-ib
http://tinyurl.com/yfuumu (zwire.com) Detailed and informative summary of the work completed so far: "The scan was unique because the Toshiba Aquilion CAT Multi-Detection machine uses technology that is only about a year old and few radiology units have...
- Whats That Funk?
I hear this mummy called prince Pentewere over and over but no matter how many times they say it it still does not make it so. The unwrapping of the royal mummies in June of 1886 brought to light this supposed tortured soul. Unknown man "E" has undergone...
- An Unknown Man
The unwrapping of the royal mummies in June of 1886 brought to light this supposed tortured soul. Unknown man "E" has undergone his date with the C.T. scan machine which confirmed something long doubted that the unknown man had been eviscerated and properly...