Britain's 'Super X-ray' Diamond Synchrotron to shed new light on the ancient world

Times of London ^ | February 17, 2009 | Mark Henderson

[SunkenCiv]

Three Egyptian bronze figurines from the British Museum will be among the first treasures to be investigated by the Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing beamline or Jeep... Jen Hiller, a scientist working on the beamline... "It might give us the chance to look at the contents. The Egyptians used to stash things inside their statues. We also get very fragile inner sarcophagi or mummy wrappings." Janet Ambers, of the British Museum, said that the joins between parts of the statues were so dense that it was only by using Jeep's intense X-rays that it would be possible to see how the statues were made... The Jeep beamline will also allow archaeologists to excavate objects together with the surrounding earth, and image the artefact before soil is removed, to reduce the chances of damage. Dr Hiller said: "British archaeology, as I found out to my misfortune in a weekend in Lincolnshire, is very muddy. We tend to find a lot of treasure hoards which we take out of the ground in great blocks of mud. Using something like Jeep, we can look at what's inside without damaging anything."

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[GSP.FAN]

Wow amazing pic.
She has very good teeth,did Thebes have socialized medicine back then?

[Freedom2specul8]

I was thinking the teeth looked fantastic too. Wasn’t that pic in another article within the past week or so?

[GSP.FAN]

Yeah it was and i think sunkenciv posted it.

[Freedom2specul8]

I think you are correct.

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