Mummy scan database to launch in the summer

IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project

Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world. The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project (impactdb.uwo.ca) at the University of Western Ontario is curently under way and is expected to go live online this summer.


The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database is a large-scale, multi-institutional collaborative research project devoted to the scientific study of mummified remains, and the mummification traditions that produced them, through non-destructive medical imaging technologies.

IMPACT focuses on the body,  made artifact through cultural or natural intervention, in bioarchaeology, epidemiology, and social archaeology studies of  past human societies and their genetic and cultural descendents.


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