Paleoradiology: Imaging Mummies and Fossils
The Scientific Study of Mummies

 

 

Websites

 

 

Here are links to some mummy science websites:

The Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium project (forensic research on the ancient population of the Egyptian city of Akhmim/Panopolis)

6th World Congress on Mummy Studies (20-24 February 2007), Canary Islands (information, photos, and proceedings)

University of Illinois Mummy Project (study of a child's mummy dated to the early second century A.D.)

Animal Mummy project (Cairo's Egyptian Museum provides a way for anyone to save an animal mummy)

National Museum of Scotland mummy project (a 4 year research project to investigate all the Egyptian mummies in the museum's collection by a variety of specialists, including forensic pathology, anatomy, oral medicine, radiology, human genetics and also facial reconstruction)

International Ancient Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank (developed at the University of Manchester in the context of the worldwide Schistosomiasis Research Project in 1996)

 

"Our Body: The Universe Within" made its Midwest debut at The New Detroit Science Center Jan. 13, 2006. (PRNewsFoto/The New Detroit Science Center)

 

Plastination Laboratory, University of Michigan (a look at an academic use of plastination without any controversy or drama)

Swiss Mummy Project (a paleopathological examination of different human mummies from around the world)