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Beneath the Bandage: ... Two years of DNA testing and CT scans on King Tutankhamun's 3,300-year-old mummy and 15 others have provided the cause of death and the firmest family tree yet for Tut ...
The bandage was found on the body of a young girl who died in the 1st to 2nd century AD, ... So it's surprising that these types of bandages have never been seen in a mummy before, he said.
This particular mummy was one of 21 children mummies that were observed in all, others, too, which showed signs of skin lesions and infections. Only the girl, though, had a bandage still attached ...
Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum, was just re-examined by researchers.
After being wrapped in resin bandages, the mummy would have been placed in hot sand so the balm preservatives could act to keep the body safe. Later mummies were laid flat in tombs far from the sun.
Bandages that were custom-made for Tut's mummy bear an eerie resemblance to modern-day gauze. "I do not recall ever having seen any ready-made, 18th Dynasty bandages like them before," Winlock wrote.
In many a B-movie plot, disturbing a mummy resulted in a horrible curse on an unlucky archaeologist. Perhaps those days are over, now that scientists have reconstructed the face of a mummified ...
'Like slices of toast, when put together, make a full loaf of bread': The scans virtually cut the mummy of Amenhotep I into thin slices that were then reassembled into a 3D image.
Newly-found Egyptian mummy undergoes autopsy 01:13. The wood casket contained a small wrapped package, bound in bandages and covered with molten black resin.