Scanning for answers to mummy's mysteries
Egypt

Scanning for answers to mummy's mysteries


http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_346052.html
A female mummy named Pesed from the Akhmim region of Egypt, and currently resident at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Lawrence County, is the latest to go under the scanner: "Scientists hope to find out more about the 2,300-year-old mummy after CT scans are performed on her tonight at College Fields MRI in Neshannock . . . . Pesed once was thought to be the young, single daughter of an Egyptian priest, but CT scans and X-rays in August 2001 unmasked her as a 55- to 65-year-old woman who was suffering from osteoporosis at the time of her death. She was mummified between 300 and 220 B.C. ". See the article for more. I'll try and follow up on the story after she has been scanned.




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CCTV 2 page article (short pages), mainly about trying to identify the mummy of Hatshepsut. There's also a video (which crashed both my browsers, but you may be luckier). Pages 4, 5 and 6 show photographs of the mummy. Scientists and archaeologists...

- 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...

- Pesed: The Latest News
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_440253.htmlIt has been a while since the mummy Pesed has been reported upon, but this article has an update: "For more than 2,000 years, no one knew what Pesed looked like. Until Tuesday. The...

- More About The Mummy Pesed
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/kshb/news/article/0,1925,KSHB_9418_3888564,00.html"Pesed is bouncing in the back of a Dodge Ram Van, much to the dismay of the young woman watching over her. The driver is lost, and they're a little late for Pesed's...

- More On The Mummy Pesed
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-28/1119821312111700.xml&storylist=penn "Last week, Pesed was taken to College Fields MRI in Neshannock, Lawrence County, for a CT scan, during which computers produced images of half-millimeter-thick...



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