Egypt
Ivanhoe.com
With Video
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- Ct Scan Of A Mummy In Syracuse
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- Ct Scan For Iret-net Hor-irw
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Egypt
In the Lab: Mummy scans at Stanford
Ivanhoe.com
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"This was a mummy we weren’t allowed to touch," Paul Brown, a biocomputing expert at Stanford, told Ivanhoe.
Biocomputing experts -- who study biological applications of computers -- and medical physicists got a detailed look at a priest who died 2,600 years ago in ancient Egypt and had been stored in a museum for decades. The scan produced thousands of high-resolution, three-dimensional pictures.
"It's a high contrast CT scan, which is an experimental CT scan -- perfect for the mummy since the mummy doesn’t have any soft tissue," Brown said.
Graphic artists use images to put the mummy back together-piece by piece. The scans reveal the most detailed images of a mummy to date. This priest died in his 20s.
"You can see the calcification, and that’s one predictor of age," Brown said.
He was laid to rest with an amulet on his forehead, representing eternal life. His organs were placed in linen pouches and set inside his torso. Another scan of a child reveals even more mysteries.
"We think it’s a little girl," Brown said. "We could see the trauma. We could see a tooth that was cracked. We looked at every single bone in her body, and we didn’t find anything unusual. They think she was weaned late, and once she left her mothers milk, she probably died."
- 3d Photos Reveal Brainless, 2,500-year-old Mummy
Fox News (Jennifer Welsh) With photo. CT scans of suggest this mummy was a male who died at age 40 (a relatively mature age by ancient Egyptian standards), and lived in Lower Egypt sometime between the 20th and 26th dynasties. This mummy seems...
- 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...
- Cat Scan Of Philadelphia Mummy
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14636650.htmA 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...
- Ct Scan Of A Mummy In Syracuse
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4619791&nav=4QcS Brief piece about scanning a mummy named Hen - "An Egyptian mummy was taken to a Syracuse hospital by ambulance for a C-T scan.The 2-thousand-year-old mummy, called Hen, usually is on display...
- Ct Scan For Iret-net Hor-irw
A 2500 year old unwrapped mummy of Priest from around 500bc has had his turn under the CT scan. http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1728134,stanford-scan-ancient-mummy-082109.article...