Rescanned: new Results from a Child Mummy at the University of Illinois

Abstract

In March of 2011, a Roman-period Egyptian mummy belonging to the Spurlock Museum of the University of Illinois was re-scanned after a twenty year interval, using new Computed Tomography (CT) equipment and image reconstruction software. The original goals of the project were to study the embalming techniques and the age, sex, and cause of death of the child inside the wrappings. Initial results showed that the mummy was a child, aged seven to nine years at the time of death, who was placed on a wooden board without obvious evisceration (brain, heart, and lungs still remain), and wrapped in a red shroud with a typical face portrait and decorations. Although the new images did not reveal the sex of the mummy, they did show significant damage to the back of the head and clearer images of internal organs and cloth packing than twenty years ago.

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