Researchers consider they will reconstruct the life and dying of the Egyptian priest and perceive which varieties of merchandise have been used to mummify the physique
Ancient Egypt met fashionable medical expertise when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as half of a analysis undertaking to uncover its secrets.
The mummy of Ankhekhonsu, an historical Egyptian priest, was transferred from Bergamo’s Civic Archaeological Museum to Milan’s Policlinico hospital, the place consultants will make clear his life and the burial customs of virtually 3,000 years in the past.
“The mummies are practically a biological museum, they are like a time capsule,” stated Sabina Malgora, the director of the Mummy Project Research.
Malgora stated info on the mummy’s title comes from the sarcophagus dated between 900 and 800 BC, the place Ankhekhonsu — which implies ‘the god Khonsu is alive’ — is written 5 instances.
Researchers put together to transfer an Egyptian mummy from the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bergamo to Milan’s Policlinico hospital to endure a CT scan so as to examine its historical past, in Bergamo, Italy, June 21, 2021.
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Researchers consider they will reconstruct the life and dying of the Egyptian priest and perceive which varieties of merchandise have been used to mummify the physique.
“Studying ancient diseases and wounds is important for modern medical research … we can study the cancer or the arteriosclerosis of the past and this can be useful for modern research,” she stated.
