2,000-year-old Egyptian animal mummies get cat scan at Amsterdam UMC
3 years, 5 months ago

2,000-year-old Egyptian animal mummies get cat scan at Amsterdam UMC

NL Times  

The Amsterdam UMC may just have seen their oldest ever patients. A range of Egyptian animal mummies over two thousand years old recently underwent CT scans and X-rays at the healthcare facility. “Animal mummies are increasingly being researched internationally because they can tell us a lot about the religious rituals of ancient Egyptians and how they treated animals”, curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, Ben van den Bercken said to AT5. “We hope to obtain a lot of new data with these scans so that we can answer pressing questions”, van Bercken said. “It’s a fun way to apply the knowledge you normally use to a completely different branch of science”, Jansen said.

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