Egypt
This Is London
Another older story which I missed from March.
See the above page for the full story, with photographs.
- Exhibition: Opening The Vaults
My Fox Chicago Exciting new discoveries at the Field Museum are unlocking some mummy mysteries. Last summer, the museum staff wheeled out their mummies into a special mobile X-ray scanner in the parking lot. The scanner revealed some never-before-known...
- Ny Hospital Test Reveals Mummy Is A Man
newsday.com It turns out one of four ancient Egyptian mummies thought for centuries to be a woman is actually a man. North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset examined the mummies belonging to the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday. A CAT scan revealed that...
- Museum’s Egyptian Mummies: Visit To Hup For Ct Scanning
University of Pennsylvania Almanac PUM II and Hapi-Men, two of the ancient Egyptian mummies on display at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have had their share of medical scrutiny: PUM II was both x-rayed and autopsied...
- Three Mummies Of Children From The Bm Undergo Analysis
The Age The opening paragraph of this piece is a bit strange, but the rest of the article is perfectly coherent. Three mummies, all children, dating to the Graeco-Roman period and stored in the British Museum are undergoing analysis. Who were these kids...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...
Egypt
Hospital helps unravel the mysteries of Eygpt
This Is London
Another older story which I missed from March.
A HOSPITAL has helped reveal the secrets of mummified children from Egypt using state-of-the-art technology.
A team of scientists, led by forensic Egyptologist Janet Davey, scanned three 2,000-year-old Egyptian child mummies at Blackheath Hospital, in Lee Terrace, Blackheath, on Tuesday (March 24).
The three mummies, one of which has an elaborate gold death mask, were part of a collection of 12 housed in The British Museum.
By using the hospital’s CT scanner, the scientists were able to create a 3D picture of the mummies’ skeletons and anatomy without disturbing their delicate wrappings.
Miss Davey, based at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, says the scans will help solve the mysteries surrounding the life and death of children in ancient Egypt.
She said: “Early results show all three mummies were boys, two of which have severe head injuries.
“It’s very unusual for mummies to have holes in their heads.
By using the hospital’s CT scanner, the scientists were able to create a 3-D picture of the mummies
“We don’t know if that has anything to do with mummification and we don’t know if these injuries were sustained before or after death.
See the above page for the full story, with photographs.
- Exhibition: Opening The Vaults
My Fox Chicago Exciting new discoveries at the Field Museum are unlocking some mummy mysteries. Last summer, the museum staff wheeled out their mummies into a special mobile X-ray scanner in the parking lot. The scanner revealed some never-before-known...
- Ny Hospital Test Reveals Mummy Is A Man
newsday.com It turns out one of four ancient Egyptian mummies thought for centuries to be a woman is actually a man. North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset examined the mummies belonging to the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday. A CAT scan revealed that...
- Museum’s Egyptian Mummies: Visit To Hup For Ct Scanning
University of Pennsylvania Almanac PUM II and Hapi-Men, two of the ancient Egyptian mummies on display at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have had their share of medical scrutiny: PUM II was both x-rayed and autopsied...
- Three Mummies Of Children From The Bm Undergo Analysis
The Age The opening paragraph of this piece is a bit strange, but the rest of the article is perfectly coherent. Three mummies, all children, dating to the Graeco-Roman period and stored in the British Museum are undergoing analysis. Who were these kids...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...