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X-Ray Scans of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Reveal a Surprising Discovery – ScienceAlert
Highly focused X-ray beams targeted small objects inside the mummy.
An Egyptian mummy
that was decorated with a woman’s portrait contained a surprise the body of a child who was only 5 years old when she died. Now, scientists have learned more about the mysterious girl and her burial, thanks to high-resolution scans and X-ray
“microbeams” that targeted very small regions in the intact artifact.
Computed X-ray tomography
(CT) scans of the mummy’s teeth and femur confirmed the girl’s age, though they showed no signs of trauma in her bones that could suggest the…
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