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Ancient mummies 'brought to life'
Topic Started: May 19 2014, 09:55 PM (273 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27439684

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 resolution.

It is enabling scientists for the first time to tell their age of the mummies, what they ate, the diseases they suffered from, and how they died.

Each mummy was put into a state-of-the-art CT scanner. Researchers probed them layer by layer to build up a high-definition 3D picture of each one. Once digitised, British Museum staff were then able to peel away each layer, to see the face of the person underneath the bandages.

John Taylor, who is the museum's curator of Ancient Egypt and Sudan said he was "stunned" when he saw the images. "It's as if you switched a light on in a dark room and things jump out with a clarity where you are able to find out what the life experiences of these people really were," he told BBC News.



Sounds like they've found some interesting stuff. I wonder whether this will be turned into an exhibit like the one in Stockholm, which allows visitors to 'unwrap' a mummy?
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thats interesting. imagine how its gunna be in a few years, we might even be able to have conversations with them about their past. that would be a really fun field trip to see something like that.
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Glad I had finished eating before clicking the link. Really cool. They should recreate what they would have looked like when they were alive.

EDIT: Or is that what they're doing? I didn't see any pix of that
Edited by Hedgehog121, Jun 19 2014, 08:26 PM.
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CJ
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I don't see any pics of it either. It wouldn't surprise me, though, if they now had enough information on them to do that - in which case, I'd like to see it.

However, I think conversations with them are still a bit more than a few years away :P !
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