Egypt
The Brooklyn Paper (J.J. Despain)
- Spurlock Mummy Back Under The Scanner
The News-Gazette (Debra Pressey) The first time a CT scan was done on a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois, medical technology wasn't sharp enough to help solve some of the mysteries about the body...
- 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...
- 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...
- Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...
Egypt
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 — a rich lady from the Late Period of Egypt’s glorious past — to North Shore University Hospital for a look under her skin, as it were. She’d been X-rayed before, but assistant conservator Tina March said there were still some questions left unanswered.
“We didn’t know if any of her internal organs remain,” said March. “We didn’t know if there any unusual items buried with her.”
To answer these questions, museum curators, conservators solicited help from experts in art shipping (yes, there is such a thing) and used a climate controlled van with a special suspension system and plenty of foam to transport their mummy to the Long Island medical center in total comfort.
- Spurlock Mummy Back Under The Scanner
The News-Gazette (Debra Pressey) The first time a CT scan was done on a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy from the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois, medical technology wasn't sharp enough to help solve some of the mysteries about the body...
- 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...
- 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...
- Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...