Technology Shows New Views Of Mummies

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An ongoing museum exhibit, Mummy: The Inside Story, presents a 3-D look at the unopened mummy of Nesperennub, an ancient Egyptian priest. Using the latest in medical technology, visitors see under the mummy's wrappings and flesh, catching researchers' insights into the art that went into its creation.

 

"We don't want to unwrap mummies. It's very destructive," says mummy expert John Taylor of the museum's Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. To avoid that problem, over the past two decades, computerized tomography (CT) scans of mummies have become common among researchers studying such remains, just as X-rays were used in earlier decades.

 

full article at USA Today