GE Healthcare said it has provided CT technology to scan six Egyptian mummies from the British Museum that are scheduled to go on display later this month at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA.
Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based GE said that the scans performed at the Bowers Museum represent the largest collection of CT scans ever performed on Egyptian mummies. Researchers plan to use the images to determine how the ancient Egyptians lived, their age, their overall health, cause of death, and how the bodies were preserved, the company said.
The whole-body scans of the six mummies are being interpreted by radiologists from the radiology group Moran, Rowen & Dorsey in Orange, CA, and by British Museum curators.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 8, 2005
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