Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Mummy update

HANCOCK MUSEUM MUMMY BEGINS TO REVEAL ITS X-RAY SECRETS
Experts examining new images of one of the Hancock Museum’s oldest residents, the mummy Bakt Hor Nekht, have started to reveal some of their findings.

The 3000 year old mummy, dating from 1070–712 BC, was examined during a recent Computerised Tomography (CT) scan at Newcastle General Hospital on Thursday August 31.


One of the pics: