Monday, June 22, 2009

LI Hospital CT Scan May Shed New Light on Mummies

Originally published June 21, 2009 | News Day | by Najib Aminy

The Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian Art Department and North Shore University Hospital in Manhasett form a collaboration to perform CT scanning on four Egyptian mummies. They hope to clear some of the mystery among them in discovering their causes of death and the mummification methods they underwent thousands of years ago.

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