Egypt
- Meketre Project
Meketre.org MEKETRE is an interdisciplinary research project, conducted at the Institute of Egyptology in cooperation with the research group Multimedia Information Systems at the University of Vienna. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund...
- Uwo 'ground Zero' For Mummy Studies: Researcher
Toronto Sun Two University of Western Ontario researchers have won international grants for their projects, one of which will make the university the "ground zero" of mummy studies. Using CT scans to help him look inside mummies, researcher Andrew Nelson...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- Brooklyn Museum Prepares Mummy
Sincere thanks to Sally Williams, Public Information Officer at the Brooklyn Museum, for letting me know in a comment to a previous post that The Brooklyn Museum is also preparing a mummy to tour in an exhibition To Live Forever, that will...
- Pitt May Unravel Mummy Mystery
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_505609.html"The child mummy entombed in glass on the third floor of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has kept a secret for more than two millenniums. Today, scientists and doctors...
Egypt
Mummy scan database to launch in the summer
IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project
Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world. The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project (impactdb.uwo.ca) at the University of Western Ontario is curently under way and is expected to go live online this summer.
The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database is a large-scale, multi-institutional collaborative research project devoted to the scientific study of mummified remains, and the mummification traditions that produced them, through non-destructive medical imaging technologies.
IMPACT focuses on the body, made artifact through cultural or natural intervention, in bioarchaeology, epidemiology, and social archaeology studies of past human societies and their genetic and cultural descendents.
- Meketre Project
Meketre.org MEKETRE is an interdisciplinary research project, conducted at the Institute of Egyptology in cooperation with the research group Multimedia Information Systems at the University of Vienna. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund...
- Uwo 'ground Zero' For Mummy Studies: Researcher
Toronto Sun Two University of Western Ontario researchers have won international grants for their projects, one of which will make the university the "ground zero" of mummy studies. Using CT scans to help him look inside mummies, researcher Andrew Nelson...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- Brooklyn Museum Prepares Mummy
Sincere thanks to Sally Williams, Public Information Officer at the Brooklyn Museum, for letting me know in a comment to a previous post that The Brooklyn Museum is also preparing a mummy to tour in an exhibition To Live Forever, that will...
- Pitt May Unravel Mummy Mystery
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_505609.html"The child mummy entombed in glass on the third floor of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has kept a secret for more than two millenniums. Today, scientists and doctors...