Egypt
Otago Daily Times
- 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...
- Who's Your Mummy?
3 News The face of an Egyptian mummy at Otago Museum has been revealed for the first time in over 2,000 years. The 35-year-old female aristocrat has been part of the museum's collection for more than a century. The facial reconstruction of the mummy...
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Otago Daily Times Be at Otago Museum on Wednesday as experts unveil the face of the mummy, which has not been seen for more than 2350 years, using forensic technology. There will be an all-day Egyptian extravaganza, with a live mummification performance,...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- 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
Mummy facing up to more scrutiny
Otago Daily Times
However the Otago Museum's bandage-swathed mummy may have looked 2300 years ago, it certainly wasn't like film star Elizabeth Taylor.
But Taylor's memorable portrayal of Cleopatra in the movie of the same name has left its mark, Dave Wright, the museum's collections, assets and research director, said yesterday - so much so that many people think any female Egyptian mummy would look like her.
The museum will reveal more of its mummy's secrets at its "Egypt Unwrapped" day on January 28.
A non-intrusive CT scan of the mummy at Dunedin Hospital in 2000, which was used to create a three- dimensional computer model, showed the mummified woman was not exactly a raven-haired beauty when she died.
She had only six teeth and was likely to have been racked with pain from severe gum disease, including abscesses.
She was aged about 35 - at a time when many people did not live much beyond 40 - and is believed to have been middle-class.
Carbon-dating of linen from the mummy's wrappings and other analysis shows she lived during the Ptolemaic period (323BC to 30BC).
The mummy was bought in Egypt by Dunedin businessman and philanthropist Bendix Hallenstein and given to the museum in 1893.
- 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...
- Who's Your Mummy?
3 News The face of an Egyptian mummy at Otago Museum has been revealed for the first time in over 2,000 years. The 35-year-old female aristocrat has been part of the museum's collection for more than a century. The facial reconstruction of the mummy...
-
Otago Daily Times Be at Otago Museum on Wednesday as experts unveil the face of the mummy, which has not been seen for more than 2350 years, using forensic technology. There will be an all-day Egyptian extravaganza, with a live mummification performance,...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- 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...