Peering inside animal mummies with a microCT scanner section by section allowed researchers to create complex 3-D models with a level of detail that might have been lost through other imaging techniques.
Find out more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microct-xray-ancient-animal-mummies
CREDITS.
Story & production.
Helen Thompson.
Video & images.
R. Johnston et al/Scientific Reports2020
Swansea University.
Book of the Dead of Hunefer/ © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Music.
” Fish tank” by Camille Saint-Saens.
Kevin MacLeod/Incompetech. com (CC BY 4.0).
https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5738- aquarium
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Citation.
R. Johnston et al. Proof of diet plan, deification, and death with in ancient Egyptian mummified animals. Released online August 20, 2020.
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