Ancient Egyptian mummies

A team of researchers recently studied paintings in the Theban Necropolis near the Nile River using X-ray fluorescence imaging and discovered never-before-seen details of the painting process.Egypt Wants Its Rosetta Stone Back From the British MuseumUnder X-ray light, the 3,100-year-old paintings glowed with their artists’ first drafts, hidden to the naked eye for millennia. The team’s research was published this week in PLoS ONE.“Documentation remains a problem in 2023 and thus what we are trying to do is basic…

CT scans of the mummy revealed the boy’s skeleton and amuluts (white spots on rightmost scan).Image: SN Saleem, SA Seddik, M el-HalwagyOver a century ago, the mummy of a teenage boy was found in Nag el-Hassay, Egypt. The body remains wrapped to this day, but a team of researchers just used CT scanning to peer through the linens to find 49 amulets on and inside the boy’s body.The mummy was in a Ptolemaic cemetery about 500 miles south of Cairo, making the remains about 2,300 years old. The CT scans the team conducted also…