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The development of commercially available computed tomography (CT) scanners in the 1970s meant that, for the first time, the three-dimensional internal structure of mummies and bog bodies could be studied non-destructively. This chapter describes the history of CT scanning, and some of the problems and opportunities involved in applying this technique, derived for clinical use, on naturally and artificially preserved ancient human bodies. Unless severely degraded, bone is quite readily visualized, but accurate imaging of preserved soft tissues, and pathological lesions therein, may require considerable post-image-capture processing of CT data. Points made in the chapter are illustrated with particular reference to north European bog bodies.
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