Will a mummy's head reveal an ancient murder? (icnetwork.co.uk) with photo

"The ancient head is one of four Egyptian skulls which form part of an ongoing study into the [Newcastle, UK] Hancock Museum's historic Egyptian Collections. Now a team of top scientists at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary will use the latest medical equipment in a bid to delve back in time and discover its origins. They hope to shed light on how the mummies met their deaths.... Two of the heads were first scanned 10 years ago, raising questions about how one of the Egyptians met his death after it was established part of the neck had been displaced."

'New' bog body displayed in Hanover's Lower Saxony State Museum (scotsman.com)

"The remains were found in 2000 after accidentally being cut into about 100 pieces by a machine harvesting peat from a bog near the western German city of Hanover...." 

Bog body of girl found in northern Germany (discovery.com)

"The body of a teenage girl thought to be the victim of foul play has turned out to be one of Germany's oldest and best-preserved mummies, German archaeologists announced at a press conference last week. Found in September 2000 in a peat bog in the town of Uchte, in Lower Saxony, the corpse was first examined by the police homicide unit. Though it had been fragmented by the peat machine, the body appeared to belong to a teenage girl. Investigators thought it could be a 16-year-old girl who had been missing since 1969...."

Mummy to reveal face through CT-scan (zwire.com)

"Pesed has called a western Pennsylvania college home for about 120 years, but her caretakers don't know what she looks like. But that might change now that researchers have a CT scan of the 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy. Officials believe the scan will provide enough information to allow a forensic artist to construct a bust of Pesed, a mummy from the Nile River town of Akhmim, about 350 miles south of Cairo. Pesed has been the property of Westminster College, located about 40 miles north of Pittsburgh, since the Rev. John Griffin, an Egyptian missionary and a Westminster alumnus, gave the mummy to the school in 1885...."

Restoring the skin on mummified hands (harktheherald.com)

"Someone didn't want John D. Mayo, a convicted sex offender, found. His various body parts, some of which exhibited saw marks, were strewn over a 5-mile stretch of I-80, and until the Utah Department of Public Safety's crime lab got involved, all investigators knew was that the victim was a man about 6 feet tall with brown hair not a lot to go on. Enter two criminalists with the state's crime lab, Trent Grandy and Elisa Macken.... The criminalists decided that since the chance to identify someone from severed hands is a rare one, they wanted to have a teaching experience for some of the crime lab's new employees. To retrieve the fingerprints, criminalists tried to restore the mummified skin as best they could by rehydrating it...."

More on the possibility of Ötzi decaying Is Ötzi contaminated with bacteria?

(azcentral.com)

"Researchers suspect the corpse of a 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the Italian Alps may have been contaminated by bacteria since its discovery in 1991, said a doctor who cares for the body. X-rays have shown bubbles in the bones that could be caused by bacteria, said Eduard Egarter Vigl, in charge of preserving the mummy at the South Tyrol Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, Italy...."

Replica of a pharaoh's tomb to be built in Edinburgh museum (scotsman.com)

"AN exact replica of an Egyptian burial chamber is to form the centrepiece of a major new exhibition in Edinburgh. The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmosis III, known as the Napoleon of ancient Egypt, is to be built in the City Arts Centre. More than 60,000 visitors are expected to flock to the exclusive UK exhibition when it opens in October. And organisers admitted final visitor numbers could be far higher, given the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt.The replica of the burial chamber, the original of which was discovered in 1898 halfway up a cliff-face in the Valley of the Kings, comes from a detailed laser copy made by Madrid-based company Factum Arte...."

Russian medical examiner fined for selling corpses and body parts to Von Hagens (mosnews.com) 

"A Russian court has ruled that Vladimir Novoselov, a medical examiner from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk must pay a $1,300 fine for selling corpses and parts of dead bodies to Germany, Interfax news agency reported. On Friday Novoselov, the head of the Novosibirsk regional bureau of forensic medicine, was found guilty of abusing his position. The court stated in the verdict that he broke the country’s burial and funeral business laws. The judge said that Novoselov stripped the dead of their right to be buried, and their relatives could not perform traditional funeral rites...."

New King Tut exhibit enrages racial critics (nbc4.tv) 

"African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate. The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse. All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit....."

Mother's partially mummified body found with daughter in Toyohashi home (monstersandcritics.com) 

"A woman in Japan has been arrested after her elderly mother`s body -- dead for about three months -- was found in a room in her home. A woman in Japan has been arrested after her elderly mother`s body -- dead for about three months -- was found in a room in her home. Her daughter, 42-year-old Hisae Oba, was arrested for the illegal disposal of a body. Police are questioning the daughter for why she kept the body in the house...."

More on autopsy of Emmett Till Body is well-preserved after 50 years (suntimes.com) 

"Perhaps Mamie Till Mobley is still protecting her son. Her decision, in 1955, to display her murdered son Emmett's body under glass might have kept his remains intact until the day federal investigators were finally ready to investigate his death. Officials and family members stood by Till's grave at Burr Oak Cemetery Wednesday morning as Till's body was exhumed...."