Scanning the Pharaohs : CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies /
"The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process...
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Radiographic imaging of royal Egyptian mummies : previous and current studies
- The story of the royal caches
- The discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, and examination of the mummies of her family
- CT examination of selected mid- to late eighteenth dynasty mummies
- The CT scan of the mummy of Tutankhamun : new evidence on the life and death of the king
- The two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun
- Investigations into King Tutankhamun's family
- The search for the mummy of Queen Nefertiti
- The nineteenth dynasty
- The twentieth dynasty : Ramesses III, Pentawere, and the harem conspiracy
- CT findings on the mummification process of royal ancient Egyptians, eighteenth to early twentieth dynasties
- Amulets, funerary figures, and other objects found on the mummies
- Faces of the royal mummies
- Appendix: List of the royal mummies in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
