Mummies Go to Hospital – Live Coverage!
Tomorrow morning the Brooklyn Museum will be taking their four ancient Egyptian mummies to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset to undergo CT scanning. One of the four mummies is former royal prince of Thebes, Pasebakhaienipet, another is simply referred to as the “mystery mummy”. The aim of the scanning is to help learn more about the mummies.
“It’s possible that we will find the cause of death, history of ancient disease, and be able to verify which methods of mummification were used,” said Edward Bleiberg, the museum’s curator of Egyptian art.”
The mummies, two male, two female, will undergo a 64-slice computed tomography scan that will allow radiologists to examine the mummies in great detail.
“It’s the same procedure for living people to look at coronary arteries for blockages of the heart, but obviously the mummy’s heart is not there anymore, unless they used something to preserve it,” said Dr. Amgad Makaryus, director of cardiac CT and MRI at North Shore. “I think the thing that strikes me is the way we are able to use the very most modern equipment to study these ancient people,” Bleiberg said. “It’s a fascinating juxtaposition of the very old and the very new to gain new knowledge.”
Source: LI hospital CT scan may shed new light on mummies
Shelley Bernstein, the Museum’s chief geek has informed me that they will be covering the trip live so I have knocked up a widget and embedded it in this page so that others can follow the journey.
Come back to this page at 7am EST, or 12pm UTC to follow the action live. You’ll have to refresh the page to see the latest photos.
Twitter: the source of the live reports.
Flickr: the source of the live photos.
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