Egypt
Newsday (Erik Badia)
With a photograph of the upper section of the mummy.
- More Re The Mummy Of Gauteshenu
The Brooklyn Paper (J.J. Despain) A patient checked into an area hospital last week for a routine CAT scan — but doctors couldn’t do anything for her. After all, she’s a mummy who’s been dead for 2,600 years. The Brooklyn Museum took Lady Gauteshenu...
- Strange Bones In Colchester Mummy
The Independent, UK (Sean Williams) The skull of an ancient Egyptian mummy in Colchester is packed with 'strange bones', a CT-scan has revealed. The scan on 2,500-year-old Lady Ta-Hathor yesterday also revealed an odd bundle between her thighs,...
- 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...
- 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...
- More Re The Hancock Museum Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/hvkhz (icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk)"Details of the life and death of an ancient Egyptian woman began to emerge yesterday after her mummified body was scanned at a Tyneside hospital. Experts from the Hancock Museum in the city are examining...
Egypt
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 woman - and named Lady Hor - actually was a man.
Dr. Jesse Chusid said that while the mummy's body wrap of linen covered in plaster, called cartonnage, bore the shape of a woman, the body within had the anatomy of a man.
When Lady Hor's image appeared on the screen, "we knew almost immediately that it was not a woman," Chusid said. "You can actually see there are the pelvic organs of a male."
The discovery was made after Chusid, a radiologist, and Dr. Amgad Makaryus, director of cardiac CT and MRI at the Manhasset hospital, performed a 64-slice computed tomography, or CT scan, on the mummy.
The revelation was startling for those from the Brooklyn Museum, as the mummy for decades was believed to be female.
"The re-gendering is a big deal to us," said Edward Bleiberg, the museum's curator of Egyptian art. He explained that the lack of a traditional male beard on the cartonnage had led him and other Egyptologists to believe that he was a she.
- More Re The Mummy Of Gauteshenu
The Brooklyn Paper (J.J. Despain) A patient checked into an area hospital last week for a routine CAT scan — but doctors couldn’t do anything for her. After all, she’s a mummy who’s been dead for 2,600 years. The Brooklyn Museum took Lady Gauteshenu...
- Strange Bones In Colchester Mummy
The Independent, UK (Sean Williams) The skull of an ancient Egyptian mummy in Colchester is packed with 'strange bones', a CT-scan has revealed. The scan on 2,500-year-old Lady Ta-Hathor yesterday also revealed an odd bundle between her thighs,...
- 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...
- 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...
- More Re The Hancock Museum Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/hvkhz (icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk)"Details of the life and death of an ancient Egyptian woman began to emerge yesterday after her mummified body was scanned at a Tyneside hospital. Experts from the Hancock Museum in the city are examining...