Egypt
Another mummy goes through the scanner
Miami Herald
Christine Veiga
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The recent rediscovery of the mummy in the Bass museum collection has resulted in a ct scan of the mummy. The mummy will be put on display in the museum with the findings of its examination. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/northeast/story/1285498.html...
Egypt
In the Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner
Miami Herald
Christine Veiga
With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward.
A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination.
In the name of art and science, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Aventura came together this month to examine the remains of a mummy recently rediscovered in the museum's collection.
Using the latest medical technology, the team hopes to unwrap secrets about the mummy's life and death.
``Specifically, personally -- what was his story?'' asked Silvia Karman Cubiñá, executive director and chief curator of the Bass. ``We're going to try to determine that.''
The secrets of the Egyptian mummy, believed to be thousands of years old, will be revealed at a Bass Museum exhibit next year.
As the head of the mummy passed through the machine, images resembling a map of the night sky popped up on a computer screen in an adjacent room. Within minutes, the images joined to reveal an intact skull and an almost full set of teeth. A gaping black cavity showed no brain inside the skull -- Egyptians removed the organ through the nose during mummification, as it was considered unnecessary for the afterlife.
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- Radiology Helps Unwrap Mummy Mystery
The University of Vermont In January, the scans were shared by Johnson with a room full of experts -- a group comprising anthropologists, museum staff, medical examiners, and a forensic dentist. As Johnson scrolled through the images -- the mummy's...
- 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,...
- In The Lab: Looking For Birds In A Mummy
necn.com Video, with partial transcript. Back in 2006 Gerry Conlogue and Ron Beckett used x-rays, a c-t scanner and endoscope to look inside Pa Ib. He's a mummy that has been on display at the PT Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut since 1896....
- The Miami Mummy
The recent rediscovery of the mummy in the Bass museum collection has resulted in a ct scan of the mummy. The mummy will be put on display in the museum with the findings of its examination. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/northeast/story/1285498.html...