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- Scan For 2000 Year Old Mummy Of Child
The Age (Richard Macey) LIKE an expectant father, Michael Turner paced the floor anxiously yesterday. A few metres away the mummy of an Egyptian child who died, aged about seven 2000 years ago, was undergoing one of the most thorough examinations modern...
- Ct Scan Shows Mummy Younger Than Thought
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07123/783077-115.stm "Refinement of the scans vividly revealed that an 8-inch wooden stake had been inserted into the skull and through the upper spine, possibly to support the head during preparation of the remains. The...
- 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...
- Mummy Scan Wins 2006 Science And Engineering Visualization Challenge Award
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/The Challenge is intended to celebrate and encourage the visualization of research. First place in the photography category was a phtograph of the scan of a child mummy from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum: "An...
- Spurlock Museums Child Mummy
Back in 1989 the Spurlock Museum of the University of Illinois received a donation of a child's mummy from Roman period Egypt. The mummy has been xrayed and now CT. scanned yet still the sex of the child's mummy remains unanswered as...
Egypt
Radiologists reveal MFAH mummy’s secrets
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Wrapped up for 2,000 years in a manner that indicated wealth and love, the mummy was a mystery child. That changed recently when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston asked The University of Texas Medical School at Houston’s Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging to perform a computed tomography (CT) scan on the tiny figure. “The mummy had never been unwrapped,” said Sandra Oldham, M.D., professor of radiology, chief of thoracic imaging and director of residency radiology. “They thought it was a child but didn’t have any other information, and they wanted to know if there were any things in there with the mummy.” . . . .Initially, the child was believed to be about 2 years old. But judging by the number of unerupted teeth and unfused bone ends, Oldham said the child was 3 to 4 years old.
She also detected tiny bone breaks consistent with the age of the mummy, which dates to 30 B.C. to 150 A.D., as it was moved from its original location. None of the long bones of the arms or legs were broken, and there was no indication from the skeleton that the child died from a traumatic injury.
See the above page for the full story.
- Scan For 2000 Year Old Mummy Of Child
The Age (Richard Macey) LIKE an expectant father, Michael Turner paced the floor anxiously yesterday. A few metres away the mummy of an Egyptian child who died, aged about seven 2000 years ago, was undergoing one of the most thorough examinations modern...
- Ct Scan Shows Mummy Younger Than Thought
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07123/783077-115.stm "Refinement of the scans vividly revealed that an 8-inch wooden stake had been inserted into the skull and through the upper spine, possibly to support the head during preparation of the remains. The...
- 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...
- Mummy Scan Wins 2006 Science And Engineering Visualization Challenge Award
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/The Challenge is intended to celebrate and encourage the visualization of research. First place in the photography category was a phtograph of the scan of a child mummy from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum: "An...
- Spurlock Museums Child Mummy
Back in 1989 the Spurlock Museum of the University of Illinois received a donation of a child's mummy from Roman period Egypt. The mummy has been xrayed and now CT. scanned yet still the sex of the child's mummy remains unanswered as...