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The British Museum has turned to the latest technology ... The museum plans to scan all 120 of its mummies. One man mummified around 600BC in Thebes was found to have multiple abscesses which ...
The British Museum has carried out scans on eight Egyptian mummies, revealing unprecedented details about these people. Never before has anyone seen mummy hair, muscles and bone at such fine ...
Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries. Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and sophisticated ...
A path breaking CT scan has helped British Museum experts examine mummies after thousands of years without opening their ceremonial cases and disturbing the bodies. In an adult male from Thebes ...
This is an Egyptian mummy having a CT scan to unlock the secrets of its ... Dr Helmi, of Manchester University, tested seven mummies from the British Museum. One was a priestess buried with ...
Handout photo issued a CT scan. Credit: Trustees of the British Museum. Scientists and researchers at the British Museum made a strange discovery when they looked at the MRI results of a mummy ...
including the jawbone of one of the mummies and one of Tamut's amulets, which have been carefully recreated with the help of the CT scan data. The British Museum pledges to continue to use non ...
London’s British Museum has revealed the hidden secrets ... internal organs—even the remnants of one mummy’s last meal! The scans provide unprecedented detail about the mummified Egyptians ...
Thanks to a new exhibition at the British Museum, the public can finally gain a glimpse into what lies beneath after eight mummies underwent CAT scans at London hospitals, proving the most ...
A mummy of an Egyptian woman dating back to 700 ... and her remains were mummified in the desert heat. Here, a CT scan shows a 3D visualization of the mummified remains.
LONDON — Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries. Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and ...
Each mummy was put into a state-of-the-art CT ... must have been very painful on a daily basis. Image source, British Museum One scan shows a spatula - shown in green - left inside the ...