CT scans reveal mummies long-lost...

Rated by HauntedPlaces on Jul 14, 10:28am

A long line of hospital staff wraps around the corridor outside a small conference room in New York to catch a glimpse of the precious cargo. Inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion. Another body -- a prince no less -- is a few rooms down in a computer tomography scanner. The bodies are part of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 11 Egyptian mummies, transported to the North Shore University Hospital to be scanned. The goal: Find out who they are, how they might have died and establish a chronology of advances in ancient Egypt's mummification techniques. The process is not necessarily new. Egyptian mummies have been exposed to radiographic study since 1896 and CT scans, which conducts imaging by sections, for more than two decades. Perhaps the most famous of them, King Tutankhamun (c. 1355-346 B.C.), was scanned in 2005 right outside the vault that holds his sarcophagus. The scan resulted in more than 17,000 images that were analyzed by an international team of radiologists, pathologists and anatomists, led by the world-renowned Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Rated by arohan on Jun 29, 12:39pm

CT scan used to reveal mummies long lost secrets

Rated by vorstaltd on Jun 27, 12:10am

"CT scans reveal mummies' long-lost secrets "

Rated by vinitjain on Jun 26, 5:44am

"CT scans reveal mummies' long-lost secrets"

Rated by kathyshoot on Jun 26, 2:02am

very interesting! thnx Vinitijain.

Rated by Beadmonger on Jun 25, 8:41pm

very interesting!

Rated by gomchen on Jun 25, 7:32pm

new CT scans reveal mummies' long-lost secrets

Reviewed by musikizme1 on Jun 25, 6:08pm

"CT scans reveal mummies' long-lost secrets"