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Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 2019 In the past, autoptic examinations were usually performed for research. This type of examination, for obvious reasons, did not appeal to paleopathologists as these procedures potentially damaged the finds destined to musealization. Since the discovery of X-ray, radiology has been used to study mummies as a noninvasive technique.
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The Enigma of the Red Shroud Mummies
, 2016 The Manchester Museum has an extensive collection of human mummies from ancient Egypt. Within that collection are eight mummies from the Roman Period which have been CT scanned in the recent past.
Loynes, Robert
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Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies? The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe [PDF]
, 2022 Why did people think cannibalism was good for their health? The answer offers a glimpse into the zaniest crannies of European history, at a time when Europeans were obsessed with Egyptian ...
Harmes, Marcus
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, 2021 The present thesis aims to expand and acquire new knowledge on the emergence of portrait mummies during the Roman period in Egypt and their socio-religious status.
Boender, Alexandra
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Preventive Conservation of the Kabayan Mummies: Surveying and Environmental Monitoring to Save the Mummies [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThe Kabayan mummies are culturally important to the indigenous Ibaloi peoples of Benguet, the Philippines. Within the last several decades, these mummies have increasingly begun to deteriorate.
F. D. L. P. Reyes +3 more
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Burials of Pazyryk Culture: Social Differentiations
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Specialists dealing with the Pazyryk culture keep posing questions about its social structure. Traditionally, scholars ― with due account of outer parameters of kurgans, depths and areas of graves, numbers of buried horses, quantities and
Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva
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Studies on protozoa in ancient remains - A Review
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013 Paleoparasitological research has made important contributions to the understanding of parasite evolution and ecology. Although parasitic protozoa exhibit a worldwide distribution, recovering these organisms from an archaeological context is still ...
Liesbeth Frías +2 more
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Egyptian and Middle Eastern mummies in public museums outside Egypt
Journal of Biological Research, 2005 The issue of this work is to locate the collections of Egyptian and Middle Eastern mummies around the world. To do so, we have taken contact with several museums around the world (we can mention the British Museum, the Louvre, the Smithsonian Institution,
Charbel El-Bcherauoi +2 more
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Acta Medica Lituanica, 2022 Background: A medieval mummy known as the Blessed Antonio (Patrizi) is held in the church of Saints Peter and Paul at Monticiano, Sienna, central Italy.
Dario Piombino-Mascali +2 more
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Capturing the past using DNA from Sacred Ibis Mummies
, 2020 Animals were significant to the ancient Egyptians as they considered them Gods living on earth. By far, the most numerous mummies found are those of the Sacred Ibis, worshipped as the incarnation of the God Thoth.
Lambert, David, Wasef, Sally
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