| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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Archaeopress Egyptology ; 9 |
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Archaeopress Egyptology ; 9.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Terminology -- Chapter One -- Introduction -- 1.1 Mummification -- The afterlife -- 1.1.1 Religious beliefs and the afterlife -- 1.1.2 Historical References to Mummification in Ancient Egypt -- 1.2 Mummification -- Types and Pathology -- 1.2.1 Classification of mummies -- 1.2.2 Experimental mummification -- 1.2.3 Ancient Egyptian Knowledge of Anatomy -- 1.3 The journey -- From death to museum -- 1.3.1 In Egypt -- 1.3.2 In Continental Europe -- 1.3.3 In Museums |
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1.4 Research Disciplines in Mummy Studies -- 1.4.1 Nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- 1.4.2 Twenty first century -- 1.5 Medical Imaging -- 1.5.1 History and development -- 1.5.2 Other Imaging Methods -- 1.5.3 Current use of radiography in mummy studies -- 1.6 Aims and Objectives -- 1.6.1 Current Literature -- Fig. 1.1 The Body Planes. -- Chapter Two -- Methods -- 2.1 Source of Materials -- 2.1.1 Location of material -- 2.1.2 Formats of Material -- 2.1.3 Dicom readers -- 2.2 Constraints -- 2.2.1 Intellectual Property Considerations -- 2.2.2 Technical Constraints -- 2.2.3 Provenance |
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2.3 Age at death -- 2.4 Estimation of sex -- 2.5 Palaeopathology -- 2.6 Individual Reports -- 2.6.1 Principle of Reports -- Table 2.1 Current locations, origins and era of mummies -- Table 2.2 Grouping of current locations -- Fig. 2.1 External appearance of Graeco-Roman Mummy -- BMAG -- Fig. 2.2 3D reconstruction of skull showing the teeth in Graeco-Roman mummy -- Fig. 2.3 Axial view of male genitalia in Graeco-Roman mummy -- Fig. 2.4 Coronal view of skull -- cribriform plate perforation -- Fig. 2.5 Sagittal view of skull showing brain remnants in posterior fossa |
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Fig. 2.6 Axial view of skull showing ocular remnants -- Fig. 2.8 Sagittal view of skull base showing foreign body. -- Fig. 2.9 Coronal view of skull base showing multiple foreign bodies -- Fig. 2.10 Axial view of skull base showing multiple foreign bodies -- Fig. 2.11 Axial view of mid thoracic region -- costo-vertebral dislocation -- Fig. 2.12 Axial view of mid thoracic region -- costo-vertebral dislocation -- Fig. 2.13 Axial view of thorax showing asymmetry with anterior padding on left -- Fig. 2.14 Coronal view of thorax showing chest asymmetry with anterior padding on left |
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Fig. 2.15 Axial view of thorax showing thoracic contents -- Fig. 2.16 Axial view of abdomen -- left flank incision -- Fig. 2.17 Axial view of pelvis -- sacro-iliac joint disruption -- Fig. 2.18 Coronal view of pelvis -- pubic symphysis disruption -- Fig. 2.19 Coronal view of pelvis -- bilateral hip dislocation -- Fig. 2.20 Coronal view of pelvis -- bilateral hip dislocation -- Fig. 2.21 Axial view of pelvis -- incision anterior to left hip -- Fig. 2.22 Axial view of pelvis -- incision anterior to right hip -- Fig. 2.23 Axial view demonstrating detail of right wrist |
| Summary |
Robert Loynes presents analyses of 60 CT scans of ancient Egyptian human mummies, collected from museums throughout the UK and continental Europe. The effect is that of performing 'virtual autopsies', allowing techniques of mummification to be examined. The historical age of the mummies ranges from the Middle Kingdom to the Roman period. Several observations are made regarding the preparation of mummies and confirmation of previously described themes is tempered by the observation of variations probably indicating individual workshop practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 15, 2016) |
| Subject |
Embalming -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
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Mummies -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
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Tomography.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Embalming
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Mummies
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Tomography
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Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Archaeopress, publisher.
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| ISBN |
1784911119 |
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9781784911119 |
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