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Article: Inside the mummy: archaeology meets technology to reveal an ancient Egyptian workman's blunder, 2,800 years after the event.(Mosaic)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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EGYPTIAN MUMMIES contain a wealth of information about the past but until now to discover their contents, they had to be unwrapped. The process is irreversible; therefore unwrapping a mummy to discover its secrets meant destroying it for good, presenting Egyptologists with a terrible dilemma.
The British Museum in London houses nearly 100 mummies and is a leading centre for research on all aspects of Ancient Egypt. Outside Cairo it boasts the most comprehensive collection of Egyptian Antiquities anywhere in the world.
Now, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SCI) has joined forces with the British Museum to explore a different process of analysis: the non-invasive ...