Egypt
- Exhibition: Mummy - Secrets Of The Tomb
Mysunshinecoast Queenslanders are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of ancient Egypt with tickets now on sale for Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb exhibition at Queensland Museum South Bank, announced Arts Minister Rachel Nolan. "Mummy: Secrets of the...
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- 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...
- Weekly Workshops At The Rosicrucian Museum
The Scribe blog This new addition to our weekend workshop series is all about mummies! The workshop was created to take full advantage of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s four resident human mummies, who provide us with a wealth of information about...
- Conventions Of Egyptian Sculpture
Where did these reserve heads come out of and why did they not integrate into the conventions of Egyptian funerary sculpture? What had been the need for limestone heads with their features in plaster? Could it have been part of the death rituals, the...
Egypt
Nine Egyptian Mummies: Evaluation with High-Resolution CT and Reformation Techniques
http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/178/6/1367
"CT is an indispensable imaging tool in the evaluation of Egyptian mummies because it can noninvasively generate large amounts of data. We applied current CT imaging and postprocessing techniques to methodically survey the head and skull base features of nine Egyptian mummies in the hope of providing paleopathologic and radiologic information."
"CT is an indispensable imaging tool in the evaluation of Egyptian mummies because it can noninvasively generate large amounts of data. We applied current CT imaging and postprocessing techniques to methodically survey the head and skull base features of nine Egyptian mummies in the hope of providing paleopathologic and radiologic information."
Conclusions: "The systematic evaluation of the head and skull base of mummies with CT can provide insight into the life, disease, death, and postmortem treatment of these ancient Egyptians"
This is a good article with images and analyses.
- Exhibition: Mummy - Secrets Of The Tomb
Mysunshinecoast Queenslanders are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of ancient Egypt with tickets now on sale for Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb exhibition at Queensland Museum South Bank, announced Arts Minister Rachel Nolan. "Mummy: Secrets of the...
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- 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...
- Weekly Workshops At The Rosicrucian Museum
The Scribe blog This new addition to our weekend workshop series is all about mummies! The workshop was created to take full advantage of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s four resident human mummies, who provide us with a wealth of information about...
- Conventions Of Egyptian Sculpture
Where did these reserve heads come out of and why did they not integrate into the conventions of Egyptian funerary sculpture? What had been the need for limestone heads with their features in plaster? Could it have been part of the death rituals, the...