Egypt
CT Scan on Australian Museum mummy
http://tinyurl.com/lulxc (
smh.com.au)
A short article about routine maintenance leading to CT scans on the prize piece in the Australian Museum's Egytpolgoy collection - a mummy donated to the museum over a century ago. Although the images on the front of the mummy depict a female, a previous X-ray had suggested that the remains under the bandages were male. However, the doubts have now been resolved: "She might be shrivelled, with just five teeth, but she was all woman - and 300 years older than expected. Patched up and dressed in a nylon bodystocking, the mummy was yesterday returned to her coffin."
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Tasmanian Museum Mummy Under The Scanner
The Mercury (Kane Young) Modern technology has helped finally wrap up an age-old debate the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery's ancient Egyptian mummy is, in fact, male. The mummy, plus three stuffed thylacines and five preserved baby thylacines, had...
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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...
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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...
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Dig Days - Zahi Hawass On Nefertiti, Part 2
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/845/he2.htmHawass continues his detailed suvey of the data available for the identification of the Younger Lady, one of three mummies in the KV35 cache. As expected, he concludes that the mummy is not as Joann Fletcher...
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More Re The Hancock Museum Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/hvkhz (icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk)"Details of the life and death of an ancient Egyptian woman began to emerge yesterday after her mummified body was scanned at a Tyneside hospital. Experts from the Hancock Museum in the city are examining...
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