Egypt
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- Another Mummy Under The Scanner
Anniston Star (Patrick McCreless) One of Anniston’s oldest residents has kept her secrets hidden behind carefully wrapped linen bandages for more than 2,000 years. But after a visit to Regional Medical Center, those ancient secrets finally will be revealed....
- Reconstructing The Face Of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With photographs/illustrations She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes....
- Video: Meresamun
Discovery News See the above page for the video. The face of Meresamun, a priestess who sang in the temples of Ancient Egypt hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, has been revealed to the world for the first time thanks to a X-ray with a light...
- Special Online Feature: Priestess Of Amun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) There is a great online feature about Meresamun on the Archaeology Magazine website. See the above page for a number of different sections which look at different aspects of Meresamun. ARCHAEOLOGY's March/April...
- First The Dead
The Oriental Institutes Egyptian mummy Meresamun has had its date with a CT. scanner. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-big-scanner-25-dec25,0,1223594.story...
Egypt
Meresamun to go under OI scanner
Chicago Tribune
When doctors at the University of Chicago put the first patient through their new cutting-edge CT scanner, they weren't very concerned about her health. But they did hope to find clues into how she died, 3,000 years ago.
Meresamun, a mummy owned by the university's Oriental Institute, recently had the honor of being the first subject of the university's 256-slice scanner, which is four times as powerful as the previous model and the first of its kind in Illinois.
As a medical tool, University of Chicago Medical Center radiologists say, the scanner will create faster, more accurate images of ailing people's bodies while also reducing their exposure to radiation.
Physicians have used computed tomography, or CT, for more than 30 years to peek inside the body. The scanners contain detectors that loop around a patient, taking a series of X-rays from various angles that are then assembled into a three-dimensional cross-section of the body, or "slice." When slices are stacked together electronically, doctors can reconstruct organs to look for tumors or blood clots.
- Another Mummy Under The Scanner
Anniston Star (Patrick McCreless) One of Anniston’s oldest residents has kept her secrets hidden behind carefully wrapped linen bandages for more than 2,000 years. But after a visit to Regional Medical Center, those ancient secrets finally will be revealed....
- Reconstructing The Face Of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With photographs/illustrations She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes....
- Video: Meresamun
Discovery News See the above page for the video. The face of Meresamun, a priestess who sang in the temples of Ancient Egypt hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, has been revealed to the world for the first time thanks to a X-ray with a light...
- Special Online Feature: Priestess Of Amun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) There is a great online feature about Meresamun on the Archaeology Magazine website. See the above page for a number of different sections which look at different aspects of Meresamun. ARCHAEOLOGY's March/April...
- First The Dead
The Oriental Institutes Egyptian mummy Meresamun has had its date with a CT. scanner. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-big-scanner-25-dec25,0,1223594.story...