Computed Tomography of Ancient Egyptian Mummies : Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

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Computed Tomography of Ancient Egyptian Mummies

Harwood-Nash, Derek C. F.

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From the Department of Radiology, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada. Presented in part at the International Symposium and Course on Computed Tomography, Miami Beach, Florida, March 19-24, 1978.

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 3(6):p 768-773, December 1979.

Abstract

This first report of the application of computed tomography (CT) to the study of ancient mummies, the desiccated brain of a boy and the body of a young woman within her cartonnage, shows that CT is uniquely suitable for the study of such antiquities, a study that does not necessitate destruction of the mummy or its cartonnage. Exquisite images result that are of great paleoanatomical, paleopathological, and archeological significance.

Index Terms: 

Mummies—Egyptology—Computed tomography.

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