Published: November 25, 2011

Gilded Lady, The Mummy

Using state of the art technology, Anthropologists from the Field Museum had the opportunity to examine Egyptian mummies for the first time. Check out the amazing images that they produced using a portable medical CT scanner. These mummies have been part of the Museum collections for many years and thanks to proper conservation methods, researchers are now able to work with them without causing any damage.

Gilded Lady, the Mummy.

Using state-of-the-art technology, Anthropologists from the Field Museum had the opportunity to examine Egyptian mummies for the first time. Check out the amazing images they produced using a portable medical CT scanner. These mummies have been part of the Museum collections for many years and thanks to proper conservation methods, researchers are now able to work with them without causing any damage.