A team of scientists has launched a new method to extract clues from mummies that are about 1,900 years old without damaging the ancient corpse.
CT scans and X-rays were first combined to study Egyptian mummies found at the Egyptian archaeological site of Howrah.
According to findings published in the Royal Society Interface Journal on Tuesday, X-ray technology has been used to examine mummies for nearly 100 years, combining X-ray diffraction with CT scanning is completely new and provides a much higher resolution image.
CT told CTN that CT could be deployed to create a ‘three-dimensional roadmap’ of mom’s contents.
The experts then shone X-ray beams thinner than human hair on the corpse to identify the items contained in its wrappings.
X-ray technology has been used to examine mummies for nearly 100 years, according to research published on Tuesday.
CTN told CTN that CT could be deployed to create a ‘three-dimensional roadmap’ of mom’s contents. The experts then shone X-ray beams thinner than human hair on the corpse to identify the items contained in its wrappings.
“X-rays are essentially fingerprints that characterize a material,” said a researcher at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
But researchers – from Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory and the Metropolitan State University of Denver – surprised him.
Previously the corpse was not that of an adult woman, as previously thought, but with a child who had not developed her permanent teeth, the phys.ro.o. She is believed to have been around five when she died.
A small piece of pure calcium carbonate was identified in its wrappings, which experts believed was a scorpion beetle.
Previously the corpse was not that of an adult woman, as previously thought, but with a child who had not developed her permanent teeth, the phys.ro.o. She is believed to have been around five when she died
Scans believed to have metal pins by previous researchers show a number of green objects inside the mummy’s skeleton as well.
While preparing the body for mummification, the priests placed amulets between the layers of linen to wrap the dead person.
The beetle, which was associated with the ancient Egyptian sun god Ray, was often placed inside the abdomen of the body during embalming.
![As above the amulets of scarab beetles were often placed between mummy wrappings. Sometimes real beetles were also involved [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/25/20/36112146-8987305-image-a-20_1606337933478.jpg?resize=306%2C431&ssl=1)
As above the amulets of scarab beetles were often placed between mummy wrappings. Sometimes real beetles were also involved [File photo]
“This opaque substance is about the right shape for a scarb,” Stock told CNN. ‘Scarb is a symbol of rebirth.’
This finding provides new clues about the social status of mummies.
‘This person was in the upper class of society. They can do scrub and mummification, which requires a huge amount of resources, ‘Stoke said.
This scan has uncovered even more clues about the baby inside the baby, even denying some possible causes of death.
“It looks like there was no skeletal trauma,” Stock told CNN, meaning the child died from a violent death.
However the real cause of his death remains a mystery.
New information has been added to what experts can already determine from the portraits attached to the mummy.
The figure shown features a hairstyle dated from 150 to 200 AD.
A scan of the portrait on the mummy (left) can be seen next to the intact painting (right). While such paintings were common during the first century of mourning and usually depicted the person inside the wrappings, researchers initially began to believe that the mummy contained the body of an adult woman.
Pictures were always attached to mom in the 1st century, usually depicting the person inside. However the portrait on this mummy is of an adult woman so it is not clear if the painting belongs to someone else or if it is an imaginary image of a little girl as an adult.
The researchers believe the new scanning technique could be extended to other studies on mummies, allowing experts to examine corpses without tampering with them.
‘In the last days [in Victorian times]Stock CNN Said.
‘We don’t like to do that anymore.’
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