Researchers used the Advanced Photon Source particle accelerator to unveil the mysteries of a mummy without the risk of damaging it. What did the researchers find in the body?
Posted on 11/30/2017 7:49:23 AM PST by BenLurkin
It was the first time researchers used a high-energy particle accelerator to study a human mummy. The tool is often aimed for physics-based research, but the experiment allowed researchers to take a look inside without risking damage.
Researchers were able to examine the objects that were buried with the girl's body. Early results revealed wires in the mummy's teeth and a small mysterious objected wrapped to the stomach, which some of the researchers think, albeit with uncertainty, is a stone. Researchers also found shards potentially from an object made of tar placed in her skull after the brain was removed during the mummification process.
"This is a unique experiment, a 3-D puzzle," said Stuart Stock, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "We have confirmed that the shards in the brain cavity are likely solidified pitch, not a crystalline material."
The mummy, who wears gold jewelry and crimson tunic, also has an embedded portrait, a lifelike painting of the individual incorporated into the wrappings. The mummy is only one of about 100 worldwide with such a painted portrait that was embedded in the wrapping above where its head should be.
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Her cellphone?
So strange, she don’t look arabic.
ping.
Interesting. I didn’t know they had wires back then.
Wouldn’t see Arabic until the latter part of the 7th century with the Jihad and Arabization of Egypt. The mummy is 1900 years old. The person in the upper class likely reflects the Hellenization of Egyptian leadership after the death of Alexander the Great and maybe even Roman since its after the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Would be my guess.
These were transmitters built into the teeth of ancients. Receivers were in the brain behind the ear. The tar like substance was insulation.
She doesn’t look “Egyptian” because ethnically she probably isn’t.
The mummy is from the Ptolemaic period when the Greek/Macedonian Ptolemy family ruled Egypt. Cleopatra was a Ptolemy. It was during this period that coffins were frequently decorated with an image of the dead person.
The wires must be for the charger.
Ah Ha! I knew it!
Excellent response. It just struck me, having spent some time in Egypt that the facial features were not at all “Egyptian “.
You sir, solved The Puzzle, and are a real asset to Free Republic.
Thank you.
Me either, but then I am not Jewish so I guess I miss your point?
Sorry about that .. I guess it was a little obtuse.
Righttackle44 said, in 8, "...she don't look arabic."
The picture and the words come from the movie "Cabaret". EmCee (Joel Gray) is dancing and singing with the gorilla, asking the viewers to "see her through my eyes". Throughout the routine, you are led to believe that he's talking about her being a gorilla. The last words of the song are "If you could see her through my eyes ..." and then a slight pause, and then he whispers, "...she wouldn't look Jewish at all," instead commenting on early Nazi-era anti-semitism.
I simply put the two of them together: "she don't look arabic" with the nonsensical "she wouldn't look Jewish at all". It was simply that ... and probably too far afield to make a humorous connection.
Sorry about that.
Truly a better class of people hang out in archeology threads..
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