Egypt
- Hospital Tests Reveal The Secrets Of An Egyptian Mummy
R&D An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now the Spurlock Museum) at the University of Illinois....
- Brooklyn Museum Mummy Under The Scanner
NBC New York A hospital CT scan device helped look back in time Thursday, examining a mummy more than 2,600 years old from ancient Egypt. At North Shore University hospital in Manhasset, hospital doctors and researchers from the Brooklyn Museum used...
- 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...
- Two Mummified Halves Of A Cat
http://tinyurl.com/3yn64b (ballarat.yourguide.com.au) "The pieces in the puzzle of the mummified Egyptian cat have finally come together - or at least the pieces of the puss have. X-rays have revealed that the two mummified parcels, belonging to the Ballarat...
- An Oasis Of Art In The Egyptian Desert
http://www.las.uiuc.edu/news/2006fall/06oct_rockart.htmlThis important item dates back to the 21st September, so thanks to Kat for finding it and bringing it to my attention: "When Douglas Brewer ventured deep into the Egyptian desert this year, he expected...
Egypt
Mummified bird examined
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/11/20/news/doc45614a6553ce3530112911.txt
The University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital has been examining the contents of mummy wrappings on behalf of Spurlock Museum, at the request of the museum's Director, Douglas Brewer: "The mummified bird of prey recently imaged at the UI veterinary school may end up as a gift from an alumnus to the university’s Spurlock Museum. The museum routinely checks potential gifts for authenticity, although it doesn’t normally use a veterinary hospital imaging lab to do so. . . . In the case of the bird mummy, the images from the session will help establish its authenticity, but also may tell researchers things about its age, origin, purpose and more. Brewer got one of his questions answered during the initial examination. From a microscope examination before the imaging session, he could tell there was a bird’s head inside. But he wondered if the linen wrappings contained anything else, perhaps a mouse to feed the hawk in the afterlife. He also wondered whether the wrappings contained a whole bird, or just the head with filler, a bundle of sticks or something else, below. The images from the veterinary hospital, both digital X-rays and a CT scan, revealed a whole bird in stunning detail, but no other items."
- Hospital Tests Reveal The Secrets Of An Egyptian Mummy
R&D An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now the Spurlock Museum) at the University of Illinois....
- Brooklyn Museum Mummy Under The Scanner
NBC New York A hospital CT scan device helped look back in time Thursday, examining a mummy more than 2,600 years old from ancient Egypt. At North Shore University hospital in Manhasset, hospital doctors and researchers from the Brooklyn Museum used...
- 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...
- Two Mummified Halves Of A Cat
http://tinyurl.com/3yn64b (ballarat.yourguide.com.au) "The pieces in the puzzle of the mummified Egyptian cat have finally come together - or at least the pieces of the puss have. X-rays have revealed that the two mummified parcels, belonging to the Ballarat...
- An Oasis Of Art In The Egyptian Desert
http://www.las.uiuc.edu/news/2006fall/06oct_rockart.htmlThis important item dates back to the 21st September, so thanks to Kat for finding it and bringing it to my attention: "When Douglas Brewer ventured deep into the Egyptian desert this year, he expected...