Egypt
Scotland on Sunday
- Rhind Mummy Under The Scanner
MarketWatch Two thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Now, using state-of-the-art High Definition Volume Rendering(R) software from California-based Fovia, Inc....
- Book Review: Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection Of Ancient Egyptian Coffins
PalArch (Review by René van Walsem) B. & A. Dodson. 2010. Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins. – Edinburgh, National Museums Scotland. After an overview (without title, pp. 1-10) of the history of...
- Strange Bones In Colchester Mummy
The Independent, UK (Sean Williams) The skull of an ancient Egyptian mummy in Colchester is packed with 'strange bones', a CT-scan has revealed. The scan on 2,500-year-old Lady Ta-Hathor yesterday also revealed an odd bundle between her thighs,...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- 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...
Egypt
Rhind Mummy under the scanner
Scotland on Sunday
SHE was spirited to Scotland by a forward-thinking Egyptologist who made an unusual decision not to unwrap the mummified remains of a young woman to find any “treasure” lying beneath.
Now, more than 150 years later, the secrets of what is under the black-tarred linen surrounding the “Rhind Mummy” has been revealed in a series of CT scans.
An Edinburgh University team of radiologists and forensic pathologists have identified the remains as those of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian woman, aged 25-29, with a plate of metal, probably solid gold, in the shape of a flying scarab, placed on her skull.
Another metal disc has also been found on her stomach, and she is clutching a rolled scroll in her right hand against her thigh. The scroll is likely to be a funerary text, combining directions for mummification with guidance for the afterlife, and it could give the mummy’s lineage or name.
- Rhind Mummy Under The Scanner
MarketWatch Two thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Now, using state-of-the-art High Definition Volume Rendering(R) software from California-based Fovia, Inc....
- Book Review: Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection Of Ancient Egyptian Coffins
PalArch (Review by René van Walsem) B. & A. Dodson. 2010. Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins. – Edinburgh, National Museums Scotland. After an overview (without title, pp. 1-10) of the history of...
- Strange Bones In Colchester Mummy
The Independent, UK (Sean Williams) The skull of an ancient Egyptian mummy in Colchester is packed with 'strange bones', a CT-scan has revealed. The scan on 2,500-year-old Lady Ta-Hathor yesterday also revealed an odd bundle between her thighs,...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- 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...