Egypt
This is an interesting show which was controversial and still is, Whether the mummy really took cocaine or was handled by some person in past who ingested cocaine. The program features Dr. Rosalie David from Manchester Museum Mummy project.
- Curator’s Diary 7/5/12: Ct-scanning The Mummies (i)
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) Does anyone know if there's a project collating the various mummy scan results world-wide? Last week I followed in a proud Manchester Museum tradition when I accompanied four of our mummies to the Manchester...
- New Book: Egyptian Mummies And Modern Science
The University of Manchester About half way down the page: Edited by the Director of the KNH Centre, Rosalie David, the book aims to show how the team's investigative methods are being used for new international research into disease evolution and...
- The Kittermaster Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/a78vu An item in The Telegraph about the analysis of a mummy by Rosalie David's team at Manchester University, after it was rediscovered in an unusud cupboard "A pathologist, Dr Dick Kittermaster, had donated the mummy to Uplands...
- Mummy In The Attic
A ten year old boy in Diepholz Germany went up to his grandparents attic recently and uncovered an elaborate Egyptian mummy in a clearly fake sarcophagus. X-rays of the mummy reveal a skull and bones including an arrow in one of its eye sockets. In a...
- Cancer In Mummies
A study on cancer in mummies at Manchester's KNH center for Biomedical Egyptology has found only one case of cancer in hundreds of mummies. Professor Rosalie David at the faculty of life sciences says that cancer in ancient mummies is very rare. ...
Egypt
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummy
This is an interesting show which was controversial and still is, Whether the mummy really took cocaine or was handled by some person in past who ingested cocaine. The program features Dr. Rosalie David from Manchester Museum Mummy project.
- Curator’s Diary 7/5/12: Ct-scanning The Mummies (i)
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) Does anyone know if there's a project collating the various mummy scan results world-wide? Last week I followed in a proud Manchester Museum tradition when I accompanied four of our mummies to the Manchester...
- New Book: Egyptian Mummies And Modern Science
The University of Manchester About half way down the page: Edited by the Director of the KNH Centre, Rosalie David, the book aims to show how the team's investigative methods are being used for new international research into disease evolution and...
- The Kittermaster Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/a78vu An item in The Telegraph about the analysis of a mummy by Rosalie David's team at Manchester University, after it was rediscovered in an unusud cupboard "A pathologist, Dr Dick Kittermaster, had donated the mummy to Uplands...
- Mummy In The Attic
A ten year old boy in Diepholz Germany went up to his grandparents attic recently and uncovered an elaborate Egyptian mummy in a clearly fake sarcophagus. X-rays of the mummy reveal a skull and bones including an arrow in one of its eye sockets. In a...
- Cancer In Mummies
A study on cancer in mummies at Manchester's KNH center for Biomedical Egyptology has found only one case of cancer in hundreds of mummies. Professor Rosalie David at the faculty of life sciences says that cancer in ancient mummies is very rare. ...