Decode the Egyptian mummy with a new CT scanner

The British Museum used medical technology to decipher the secrets of ancient Egyptians, including their high cholesterol levels.

>>>Decode successfully the tiny 'red face' mummy in ancient Egypt

People have been interested in and studying Egyptian mummies for over 200 years. Recently the British Museum in London has been using the latest generation of CT scanners , often used to examine patients, to discover the secrets of ancient Egypt . The results show that we have more in common with the ancient Egyptians than we think. Ancient Egyptians also had high cholesterol levels and suffered from toothache.

Eight of the museum's mummies were almost opened visually, thus revealing the secrets they had brought to the grave thousands of years ago. Each thousand-year-old mummy is carefully transported to hospitals throughout London and placed in the latest generation CT scanners.

Extremely high resolution has helped us see many unusual developments on mummies. Including an interesting discovery is that a mummy has been placed in a woman's coffin, previously believed to be a woman for hundreds of years.

The first mummy joined the museum's collection in 1756, but none of the mummies of the mummies have been opened since they can self-destruct and disappear immediately upon contact. with air.

Current advanced imaging techniques can help remove the mantle of the mummies to discover what's inside. All the selected mummies this time lived in the Nile valley, in about 3,500 BC and 700 AD.

New discoveries will be published in an exhibition and visitors learn more about how they live and die, as well as knowing that embalming does not always happen as planned, especially with a man. he is at Thebes. The person in charge Daniel Antoine shared with Sky News: "Visual mummy face scanning shows, a tool still stuck in his head. During the process of brain removal of corpses, a tool is used. It was broken through the nose of the corpse and it was still stuck inside the corpse. "

Like all adult mummies, this man also suffers from severe tooth decay, with four distinct inflammation drives in his mouth. Meanwhile, two other mummies still have calcified plaque on their bones, they may have cardiovascular disease.

"This new technology is very innovative, allowing us to reconstruct and understand the lives of eight very different individuals," said Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum. "This is a project that can only be done by recent technological advances."