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Video: Meet the mummy named Demetrios

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Thanks very much to Preston for letting me know that the Brooklyn Museum website is featuring an excellent video to accompany its To Live Forever website. It takes a look at one of the mummies and its conservation. Very enjoyable.

Say hello to Demetrios. Excavated from a Roman cemetery in Hawara, Egypt in 1911, this mummy is believed to date between 30 B.C. and 395 A.D. See beyond the linen wrappings and explore interactive CT scans — 3-D x-rays — of this 2,000-year-old mummy.

The CT data is courtesy of Lawrence M. Boxt, MD, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY

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