Egypt
A beautifully wrapped mummy has recently been x-rayed and a metal object in the back of the mummies neck remains unidentified.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2008/08/21/x-ray-fails-to-identify-metal-object-in-1708-year-old-body-97319-21578425/
- More Re Birmingham Mummy
Newspost Online The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a ‘metallic’ object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull. According to a report...
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans
sky.com (David Crabtree) With photograph of scan. Amazing new pictures have been released of attempts to unravel a 1,700-year-old murder mystery. But even state-of-the-art 21st century techniques have been foiled by the case. Three Egyptian mummies from...
- Museum Mummy Murder Mystery
Sunday Mercury (Ben Goldby) IT is the murder mystery which has spanned thousands of years. Archaeologists have long questioned how an unidentified man entombed in a 1,700-year-old mummy at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery met his death. Now they hope...
- Kha's Protractor
This is an article on a mysterious object found in the tomb of the 18th dynasty royal architect Kha who's tomb was found intact in 1906 at Deir el Medina in the cemetery of the workman's village who carved and decorated "The Valley of Kings. The...
- British Museum Mummy Scanned
Though the mummy has been scanned before the technology is now just that much better. The British Museum wants to know more about the jewellery around the mummies neck. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7136135.stm...
Egypt
Pain in the Neck
A beautifully wrapped mummy has recently been x-rayed and a metal object in the back of the mummies neck remains unidentified.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2008/08/21/x-ray-fails-to-identify-metal-object-in-1708-year-old-body-97319-21578425/
- More Re Birmingham Mummy
Newspost Online The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a ‘metallic’ object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull. According to a report...
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans
sky.com (David Crabtree) With photograph of scan. Amazing new pictures have been released of attempts to unravel a 1,700-year-old murder mystery. But even state-of-the-art 21st century techniques have been foiled by the case. Three Egyptian mummies from...
- Museum Mummy Murder Mystery
Sunday Mercury (Ben Goldby) IT is the murder mystery which has spanned thousands of years. Archaeologists have long questioned how an unidentified man entombed in a 1,700-year-old mummy at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery met his death. Now they hope...
- Kha's Protractor
This is an article on a mysterious object found in the tomb of the 18th dynasty royal architect Kha who's tomb was found intact in 1906 at Deir el Medina in the cemetery of the workman's village who carved and decorated "The Valley of Kings. The...
- British Museum Mummy Scanned
Though the mummy has been scanned before the technology is now just that much better. The British Museum wants to know more about the jewellery around the mummies neck. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7136135.stm...