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Cognitive and emotional responses to viewing mummies in an Egyptian museum [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceIntroductionA recent subfield of neuropsychology is the study of people’s reactions to visiting a museum and observing artworks. However, museums do not only contain artworks or archeological finds, and some of them exhibit human remains, such as mummies.
M. Iosa +5 more
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Petrified child mummies by Paolo Gorini (19th century CE, Lodi, Lombardy, Italy): anthropological, pathological, and conservation perspectives [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineThis study presents an interdisciplinary analysis of six non-adult petrified specimens prepared by the Italian scientist Paolo Gorini (1813–1881) in Lodi, Lombardy, during the 19th century.
Omar Larentis +12 more
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The “angioletti” of Palermo: the health and development of mummified non-adults in late modern Palermo, Sicily (1787–1880 CE) [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineThe Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, have been home to non-adult mummified remains since the seventeenth century CE. Despite the increasing numbers of scientific studies conducted at this site, very little research has focused specifically on the ...
Kirsty Squires +8 more
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200 anos uma mulher, 1000 anos um homem
Revista Arqueologia Pública, 2021 Há 200 anos, no Museum anatomicum da Philipps University em Marburg, Alemanha, uma múmia é inventariada como indivíduo feminino desde sua chegada à coleção.
Anna-Maria Begerock +4 more
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Journal of Biological Research, 2021 Mummies are often excavated from dry tombs in xeric countries and transported to humid exhibits in mesic countries. When this happens, specific changes are likely to occur that threaten the long–term stability on mummies. We review our experiences in the
Debra K. Meier +2 more
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Paleopathological study of the Egyptian mummies collected in Italy: the Anubis project
Journal of Biological Research, 2021 Eighty-five Egyptian mummies belonging to different dynastic periods and collected in a number of Italian museums, have been censed and submitted for paleopathological research.
Rosalba Ciranni +6 more
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“Mummymania”:mummies,museums and popular culture
Journal of Biological Research, 2021 This lecture presents the major findings of the first anthropological study of British and American “mummymania”, the public fascination with ancient Egyptian mummies, and its associated myth, the mummy’s curse: a belief that those who interfere with ...
Jasmine Day
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Resilience effects of SGK1 and TAP1 DNA markers during PRRSV outbreaks in reproductive sows [PDF]
, 2020 The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a major infectious stressor that causes serious health problems and productivity drops. Based on previous genome-wide analyses, we selected SGK1 and TAP1 as candidate genes for resilience,
Estany Illa, Joan +3 more
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Viatica, 2021 Considered to be a medicine with extraordinary virtues, Egyptian mummies supplied a flourishing market in the 17th century. At this time, when thanatopraxy was still little known in Europe, mummies also catalyzed the attention of « esprits curieux », to ...
Elena Muceni
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 There exist numerous reports on violence in South American populations which shed a particular light on life and living conditions in those historic communities. Most studies have been performed on collections of isolated skulls.
Anna-Maria Begerock +8 more
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