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- Why Was An Ancient Egyptian Boy Dressed As A Girl?
Daily Mail With photos A 1,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has been revealed as a boy dressed in girl's clothing thanks to these incredible hospital scans. The child, who lived around 350AD, underwent scans as experts hoped to determine its sex and discover...
- Mummy Baby Injuries Assessed - Was It A Fall Or Foul Play?
cambridge-news (Jack Grove) Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital may have uncovered a 1,700-year-old murder during tests on an ancient Egyptian child mummy. Radiographers at the Cambridge hospital made the macabre discovery after they conducted X-ray scans...
- 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...
- X-ray Fails To Identify Metal Object In 1708-year-old Body
BirminghamMail.net (Chris Henwood) A MUMMY murder mystery got Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery bosses scratching their heads. The 1,708-year-old mummified body of a man, believed to be in his mid-30s, is set to go back on show at the Chamberlain Square...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
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More re Birmingham mummy
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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 by Sky News, the 1,700-year-old mummy was scanned along with two other Egyptian mummies from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, in a quest for more information on the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
The scans were arranged by Bob Loynes, previously an orthopaedic consultant at Mid-Staffs Hospital, UK, and a keen Egyptologist.
In the past, it has been necessary to unwrap mummies to carry out investigations, but this risky process can now be avoided.
“The opportunity to help with the further investigation of these mummies was a very exciting one for me,” Loynes said.
“The CT Scans have shown amazing details, which have produced as many questions as they have given answers,” he added.
Scans of the second mummy, that of Padimut, priest of the goddess Mut and probably of the 21st Dynasty (1085-935 BC), showed evidence of high quality mummification, including removal of the brain and plates in front of the eyes.
See the above page for the full story.
- Why Was An Ancient Egyptian Boy Dressed As A Girl?
Daily Mail With photos A 1,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has been revealed as a boy dressed in girl's clothing thanks to these incredible hospital scans. The child, who lived around 350AD, underwent scans as experts hoped to determine its sex and discover...
- Mummy Baby Injuries Assessed - Was It A Fall Or Foul Play?
cambridge-news (Jack Grove) Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital may have uncovered a 1,700-year-old murder during tests on an ancient Egyptian child mummy. Radiographers at the Cambridge hospital made the macabre discovery after they conducted X-ray scans...
- 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...
- X-ray Fails To Identify Metal Object In 1708-year-old Body
BirminghamMail.net (Chris Henwood) A MUMMY murder mystery got Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery bosses scratching their heads. The 1,708-year-old mummified body of a man, believed to be in his mid-30s, is set to go back on show at the Chamberlain Square...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...