Results of Spurlock mummy scan to be presented
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Results of Spurlock mummy scan to be presented


Daily Illini ()

A 1,900-year-old Egyptian mummy from the Spurlock Museum, who made headlines in early April for undergoing a CT scan at the Carle Foundation Hospital, is make another appearance in “The Return of the Mummy.”

Presented by Spurlock, The Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials and the Dr. Allan C. Campbell Family Distinguished Speaker Series, a panel of experts will discuss the new techniques applied to the ongoing study of the mummy and reveal new information gathered.




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R&D An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now the Spurlock Museum) at the University of Illinois....

- 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...

- Mummified Bird Examined
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/11/20/news/doc45614a6553ce3530112911.txtThe University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital has been examining the contents of mummy wrappings on behalf of Spurlock Museum, at the request of the museum's...

- Ct Scan Of A Mummy In Syracuse
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4619791&nav=4QcS Brief piece about scanning a mummy named Hen - "An Egyptian mummy was taken to a Syracuse hospital by ambulance for a C-T scan.The 2-thousand-year-old mummy, called Hen, usually is on display...

- 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...



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