Morphological and Tissue Characterization with 3D Reconstruction of a 350-Year-Old Austrian Ardea purpurea Glacier Mummy [PDF]
Biology, 2023 Glaciers are dwindling archives, releasing animal mummies preserved in the ice for centuries due to climate changes. As preservation varies, residual soft tissues may differently expand the biological information content of such mummies. DNA studies have
Seraphin H. Unterberger +13 more
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The Mummy Explorer—a self-regulated open-access online teaching tool [PDF]
Evol Med Public Health, 2023 Background and objectives: Virtual teaching tools have gained increasing importance in recent years. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need for media-based and self-regulated tools.
Baumann, Chris +9 more
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Lepromatous leprosy in Bronze Age Oman: micro-CT provides tools for paleopathology in fragmentary and commingled assemblages [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicinePaleoradiology uses CT scanning, digital radiography, and 3D imaging to non-invasively characterize the lives and the experience of health and disease for past people.
Gwen Robbins Schug +7 more
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Systematic assessment of bone and soft tissue tumors on whole-body CTs of 45 mummies from ancient Egypt [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThere is a growing interest in the antiquity of cancer and ongoing discussion of the apparent scarcity of malignant tumors in ancient human remains, especially those of soft tissues. We systematically assessed bone and soft tissue tumors on 45 whole-body
Stephanie Panzer +10 more
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Major trauma affecting the spine, chest wall and arm survived by a 9th/10th century CE individual from Rižinice Croatia [PDF]
HeliyonThis study investigates a series of antemortem injuries in the skeletal remains of a 36-45-year-old male from the medieval site of Rižinice. It presents the injuries comprising a fractured sternum, spinal hyperflexion, multiple rib fractures, and a non ...
Ana Curić +7 more
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The current state of knowledge on dracunculiasis: a narrative review of a rare neglected disease [PDF]
Infez Med, 2023 Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) is a chronic disease that is primarily found in the arid and poor areas of our planet where water supply systems consist of open wells.
Babich, Stella +9 more
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The mystery of the “air-dried chaplain” solved: the life and “afterlife” of an unusual human mummy from eighteenth century Austria [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineThe multidisciplinary study of the well preserved cadaver of the so-called “air-dried chaplain” from the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein (Upper Austria) not only solved the “mystery” of the excellent preservation of the trunk of this unusual ...
Andreas G. Nerlich +8 more
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Invasive versus Non Invasive Methods Applied to Mummy Research: Will This Controversy Ever Be Solved? [PDF]
BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 Advances in the application of non invasive techniques to mummified remains have shed new light on past diseases. The virtual inspection of a corpse, which has almost completely replaced classical autopsy, has proven to be important especially when dealing with valuable museum specimens.
Despina Moissidou +4 more
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Integrated multidisciplinary analysis of mobile digital radiographic acquisitions of the mummies of the Hermits from the Sanctuary of Madonna della Corona (Italy - 17th to 19th Century CE) [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicinePaleoradiology has become a standard diagnostic method in the study of mummified or embalmed bodies. Among the various available techniques, computed tomography valuing for its ability to provide detailed information.
Omar Larentis +16 more
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Editorial: Ancient diseases and medical care: Paleopathological insights [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 Sahar Saleem +5 more
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