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- Chantress Of Amun
So now it is Tahemaa's turn in the ct scanner. The 2500 year old mummy is that of a young women who lived at Thebes and was a chantress in the temple of Amun. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8176784.stm...
Egypt
Patient aged 2,500 in for tests
BBC News
A team of radiographers at a London university have been preoccupied with a patient somewhat older than most - 2,500-year old Egyptian mummy Tahemaa.
Specialists at City University in Islington, north London, used a CT scanner to learn more about how she died without damaging the corpse.
They discovered that, unusually, the brain had been left inside the mummy - suggesting an apprentice embalmed her.
Tahemaa lived in a temple in Luxor, southern Egypt, and died aged about 28.
Jayne Morgan, a senior lecturer in radiography at City University London, led the team.
She said: "It is the first time I have had such an old patient.
"But you suddenly realise you are still scanning a human being - even if it is 2,500 years old.
"You scan it in exactly the same way as a human patient.
"But because the mummy is stationary it gives you less problems with movement."
Ms Morgan said the team's principle emotion was wonder.
"The brain was still completely intact", said Ms Morgan. "We could see a fracture in her leg bone in very fine detail."
See the above page for the full story.
- Brooklyn Museum Mummy Under The Scanner
NBC New York A hospital CT scan device helped look back in time Thursday, examining a mummy more than 2,600 years old from ancient Egypt. At North Shore University hospital in Manhasset, hospital doctors and researchers from the Brooklyn Museum used...
- 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,...
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So now it is Tahemaa's turn in the ct scanner. The 2500 year old mummy is that of a young women who lived at Thebes and was a chantress in the temple of Amun. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8176784.stm...