Egypt
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- Exhibition: Mummies Of The World
srippsnews (Dinah Eng) Many people think of mummies as scary creatures in horror movies, or funny costumed characters that come out at Halloween, but when you walk among real mummies, life and death take on a whole different meaning. “Mummies of the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Putnam Museum Hopes Scans Will Tell More About 2 Mummies
WCF Courier The Putnam Museum is sending two of its mummies on a field trip in hopes of learning more about their history.The mummies, described as among the Davenport museum's most prized and popular possessions, will be carefully removed from their...
Egypt
Medics check up mummies in Mannheim, Germany
Earth Times
An exhibition of 70 mummies from round the globe is to open Sunday at a German museum, complete with three- dimensional X-ray pictures to reveal probable causes of death. The bodies, some naturally mummified and other embalmed, were given computer tomography (CT) scans by university hospital doctors to reveal symptoms of tuberculosis, arthritic joints and tumours. The Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in the south-western city of Mannheim says the show, till March 24, is the biggest ever devoted to ancient preserved bodies and follows the chilling discovery that the museum had 19 mummies in its own store. The museum had lost track of several of the mummies, which were wrapped in brown paper or packed in cartons 100 years ago, and wrongly assumed they had been destroyed by Second World War bombs. The rest of the exhibits have been borrowed from science institutes and other museums.See the above page for more - but be warned, it is a bit grizzly and it has met with some very negative critcism.
- Exhibition: Mummies Of The World
srippsnews (Dinah Eng) Many people think of mummies as scary creatures in horror movies, or funny costumed characters that come out at Halloween, but when you walk among real mummies, life and death take on a whole different meaning. “Mummies of the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Putnam Museum Hopes Scans Will Tell More About 2 Mummies
WCF Courier The Putnam Museum is sending two of its mummies on a field trip in hopes of learning more about their history.The mummies, described as among the Davenport museum's most prized and popular possessions, will be carefully removed from their...