Egypt
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- More Re Birmingham Mummy
Newspost Online The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a ‘metallic’ object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull. According to a report...
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans
sky.com (David Crabtree) With photograph of scan. Amazing new pictures have been released of attempts to unravel a 1,700-year-old murder mystery. But even state-of-the-art 21st century techniques have been foiled by the case. Three Egyptian mummies from...
- 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...
- Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...
- The Mummy Chamber
There is no news these days so I figured it was time for some fun and found myself in the Brooklyn museum's "Mummy Chamber". The chamber contains everything you would expect to find in such a place including an interactive section where you can look...
Egypt
Interview: Unwrapping Brooklyn's mummies
Archaeology Magazine
On June 23, 2009, a team from the Brooklyn Museum supervised by Edward Bleiberg, curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art, and Lisa Burno, Head Objects Conservator, transported four mummies from Brooklyn to North Shore University Hospital for CT scans. Drs. Jessie Chusid, Amgad Makaryus, and Karen Lisk of North Shore volunteered their time and services to scan four of the oldest patients they had ever encountered. The mummies on board were from various periods dating from the Third Intermediate Period (1064-656 B.C.) to the Roman Period (30 B.C.-A.D. 395). The trip was smooth and the CT scans went without trouble. The scans produced vast amounts of data to be sorted and analyzed, but even immediate, preliminary readings of the scans revealed some very unusual discoveries. Pasebakhaemipet, a Theban "prince" of the 21st dynasty, had a reed in his throat (1070-945 B.C.). "Lady" Hor of the 22nd Dynasty was identified as a man after 70 years of misidentification (712-664 B.C.). Thothirdes also of the 22nd Dynasty had also been misidentified as a woman, while the fourth, an unnamed first-century Roman period mummy still had some brain left in him. Bleiberg discussed the Brooklyn Museum's fascinating mummies and their CT scans with ARCHAEOLOGY's Morgan Moroney. He described what's been learned so far and the future plans for the scans, while emphasizing the importance of non-intrusive mummy unwrappings, the open exchange of scholars, excavating in museum storerooms, and public outreach.
See the above page for the full story.
- More Re Birmingham Mummy
Newspost Online The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a ‘metallic’ object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull. According to a report...
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans
sky.com (David Crabtree) With photograph of scan. Amazing new pictures have been released of attempts to unravel a 1,700-year-old murder mystery. But even state-of-the-art 21st century techniques have been foiled by the case. Three Egyptian mummies from...
- 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...
- Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...
- The Mummy Chamber
There is no news these days so I figured it was time for some fun and found myself in the Brooklyn museum's "Mummy Chamber". The chamber contains everything you would expect to find in such a place including an interactive section where you can look...