Modern Science Unravels Ancient Mummy Mysteries
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New York analysts have secondhanded modern-day forensic science to disclose the faces of 4 ancient mummies from the 1st century A.D.
"It was pretty exciting," stated Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University and lead author of a new research published in the diary ZÄS. "We didn't know what we were going to find.". Brier and colleagues secondhanded a CT scanner to produce physical designs of the mummies' skulls. Then a crime artist, who just knew the mummy's age and gender, secondhanded the designs to recreate the mummies' faces. The painstaking process took seven days per mummy. "We were dying to see what it looked like," Brier stated. The team then compared the faces to painted portraits entombed with the bandaged bodies. Two of the 4 match-ups were noticeably comparable.
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| -0.0839053 | “It is believed that they were almost certainly painted during the lifetimes of the individuals and clearly were not idealized images,” Brier said ... |
| 0.0149369 | “It is possible that during the mummification procedure, when several bodies were being mummified at the same time, a mismatch occurred,” Brier said. ... |
| 0.317651 | “other facial features and proportions were so consistent between the reconstruction and portrait that no mix-up was indicated here,” Brier said. ... |
| 0.380367 | “This study convinced us that some of these portraits were dead-on,” Brier said, ... |
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| -0.0289163 | “The difficulty is finding portraits that are still bound to the mummy,” he said. “Many portraits were taken off the mummies and sold during the 19th century and early part of the 20th century.” |
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| 0.112473 | “This is a very sound manner of testing the hypothesis that the mummy portraits were made when the individual was alive,” said Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, who was not involved with the study. “It enhances our understanding of the concept of portraiture and its importance at this time.” |
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Reported by Dr. Julielynn Wong: Call it the coldest case ever. New York researchers have used modern-day forensic science to reveal the faces of four ancient mummies from the 1st century A.D. “It was pretty exciting,” said Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University...
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