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Egypt: When This 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Finally Got Her Checkup, Doctors Discovered A Surprising Secret
GE Africa, 5 June 2016
In 1909, a New York businessman named Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board… Read more »
GE Africa (Lagos)
A 3000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Reveals Its Secrets
Emory University Egyptologist Peter Lacovara had a hunch. He felt Ankhefenmut's mummy from the 21st Dynasty (1069-945 B.C.) found in Bab el-Gasus, Egypt, and housed at the Albany Institute of History and Art, wasn't the mummy of a woman at all. To test his hunch he proposed scanning the mummy in a GE computed tomography (CT) scanner. Read on. More about GE in Africa in this BRIEFING.
Wrapped mummy of Ankhefenmut from the 21st Dynasty (1069-945 B.C.) found in Bab el-Gasus, Egypt. Historians originally thought that Ankhefenmut was a woman.
Unwrapped mummy of Ankhefenmut from the 21st Dynasty (1069-945 B.C.) found in Bab el-Gasus, Egypt. Historians originally thought that Ankhefenmut was a woman.
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20 April 2011
Mummy Mystery
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