Digitization helps viewers to 'peel off' the mummy

A museum in Sweden will digitize the mummy collection in 3D, visitors can remove layers of mummy in digital form.

The mummies from the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm will be digitized using images and X rays to create 3D models.

You can almost discover what's inside a coffin's coffin - (Photo: BBC News)

Accordingly, the museum will scan six mummies, create high-resolution 3D digital models by aggregating data from photos and X rays. This process is called technology. capture real picture .

With this method, visitors can explore mummies as the archaeologists have studied. In addition, it can enlarge with high resolution to observe the very small details such as the engraving on the coffin. In particular, visitors can open layers of mummified cloth to explore the buried objects.

"In this project we work with mummies, but similar methods can of course be used on other large objects, such as objects," said Thomas Rydell of the Swedish Institute for Interaction. natural history and other historical artifacts. "

The project was implemented by Swedish researchers, Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm and two Autodesk and Faro technology companies. The 3D mummy museum exhibition will be launched in the spring of 2014.