Mummy
About This Book
The 3,000-year-old mummy of the ancient Egyptian priest Nesperennub has never been removed from its beautifully painted case. Like a freshly discovered archaeological site, it contains a wealth of data about the remote past, yet until recently, this information remained inaccessible. Now the latest noninvasive imaging technology, combining computer tomography (CT) scanning with leading-edge computer graphics, has revealed what lies inside. This astonishing book documents the first-ever "virtual mummy," a three-dimensional rendering of the body that can be viewed interactively, repeatedly and from many different angles. In a sequence of dozens of startlingly clear images, readers are taken on a tour inside the "unwrapped" mummy to examine the skull, bones, internal organs, and the entombed a protective amulet and an enigmatic bowl. In the process, we learn the answers to a wide range of questions about How old was he? What did he look like? What diseases did he suffer from? How was he mummified? The Inside Story provides a fascinating glimpse of the potential of modern technology to reshape our understanding of past societies. AUTHOR John H. Taylor is assistant keeper in the department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum in London and the author of Egyptian Coffins, Unwrapping a Mummy , and Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt .
ISBN: 9780810991811
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