Egypt
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Egypt
Mummy face reconstruction
The Western Star
Christian Corbet knows she died young, although he doesn’t know how she perished.
The forensic artist is working on a mystery nearly 3,000 years old — an Egyptian mummy. The remains are part of the Royal Ontario Museum’s collection of Egyptian artifacts.
She was interred around the 21st dynasty and unearthed in the early 1900s at the site of Deir el Bahri and brought to Canada soon after that.
The University of Western Ontario was asked to do CT scans and laser scans to generate an accurate image of her bones and skull so a model could be generated.
The skull was digitally imaged, and the information put into a computer. It was then modeled in resin and plastic at a special lab in Toronto.
As the forensic artist in residence for the university, Corbet, who lives in Massey Drive, was called upon to reveal what the young woman’s face looked like.
He said the reconstruction isn’t complete without the artistic part of the procedure. For him the artistic portion is what he enjoys and the most exciting part of the process is opening her eyes.
See the above page for more.
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Western News (The University of Western Ontario) Using computed tomography, more commonly known as CT-scans, a research team at The University of Western Ontario hopes to unravel the mysteries of three Egyptian mummies on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum....