Egypt
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- Feature: Discovery Of An Intact Tomb At Saqqara
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video. This past year we found a new tomb in Saqqara, in the Gisr el-Mudir area. I was there when we opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus. Before the event, I could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about the...
- X-rays Of Tutankhamun
Egytpian Gazette N.B. The URL on this page will expire in the next few days. A look at the results of X-Rays of the mummified body of Tutankhamun. How can you look into a mummy without unwrapping the linen (a risky operation that could lead to ruining...
- Barnum Mummy Talks
http://tinyurl.com/y6drhw (courant.com)More about the Barnum mummy, and its purchaser, Phineas Taylor Barnum: "Recently, Pa-Ib, a mummy purported to be an ancient Egyptian priest, was moved from Bridgeport's Barnum Museum to a radiology office for...
- Mummy X-rays At Bridgeport's Barnum Museum
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5407619&nav=3YeX "A two-thousand year old artifact hits the examination table at Bridgeport's Barnum Museum. An endoscopic camera and x-ray machine will help scientists get a rare look into the past of an...
- The Beauty Of Science
Here is some results of that synchrotron machine on the head of the mummy of Meresamun. http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2009/02/super-x-ray-unwraps-3000yearold-mummy-.html...
Egypt
More on the Barnum mummy of Pa-Ib
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Detailed and informative summary of the work completed so far: "The scan was unique because the Toshiba Aquilion CAT Multi-Detection machine uses technology that is only about a year old and few radiology units have them. The technicians also did an MRI on the mummy, but MRIs work by finding water and certain hydrogens in the body. After 2,500 years, there was apparently not much of either in Pa-Ib. In the MRI machine, the 5-foot 3-inch mummy was invisible."
- Feature: Discovery Of An Intact Tomb At Saqqara
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video. This past year we found a new tomb in Saqqara, in the Gisr el-Mudir area. I was there when we opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus. Before the event, I could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about the...
- X-rays Of Tutankhamun
Egytpian Gazette N.B. The URL on this page will expire in the next few days. A look at the results of X-Rays of the mummified body of Tutankhamun. How can you look into a mummy without unwrapping the linen (a risky operation that could lead to ruining...
- Barnum Mummy Talks
http://tinyurl.com/y6drhw (courant.com)More about the Barnum mummy, and its purchaser, Phineas Taylor Barnum: "Recently, Pa-Ib, a mummy purported to be an ancient Egyptian priest, was moved from Bridgeport's Barnum Museum to a radiology office for...
- Mummy X-rays At Bridgeport's Barnum Museum
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5407619&nav=3YeX "A two-thousand year old artifact hits the examination table at Bridgeport's Barnum Museum. An endoscopic camera and x-ray machine will help scientists get a rare look into the past of an...
- The Beauty Of Science
Here is some results of that synchrotron machine on the head of the mummy of Meresamun. http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2009/02/super-x-ray-unwraps-3000yearold-mummy-.html...