In 1881, the mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I was discovered. And the 3,500-year-old mummy has been opened digitally for the first time.
As reported by breezyscroll.com, Dr. Saleem, a professor of radiology and is also the radiologist for the Egyptian Mummy Project said,” “By digitally unwrapping … the mummy and ‘peeling off’ its virtual layers — the facemask, the bandages, and the mummy itself — we could study this well-preserved pharaoh in unprecedented detail.”
She also added, ”Nowadays we do not physically unwrap mummies anymore. We preserve our heritage and study them with non-invasive techniques.”
In order to study the Egyptian Pharaoh’s mummy, researchers used three-dimensional computerized tomography, otherwise known as CT scans. The study was published on Tuesday in Frontiers in Medicine. Thus, this new discovery will provide fascinating insights into the life of the Egyptian pharaoh.
As a result of CT scans, they discovered that the brain of Amenhotep I was not removed during mummification, contrary to most mummies. As a result, it was stated that the same type of research would be conducted on every royal mummy. It is true that new technology allows us to discover heritage and history without harming it.
