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History

Playing Detective: How GE Imaging Technology Helped Crack 5 Ancient Mysteries

Tomas Kellner
March 22, 2019

First impressions can be misleading. In 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen trained his cathode ray at his wife’s hand and took what may have been the world’s first human X-ray, she cried out, “I have seen my death!” — or so the story goes.

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Mystery Science Theater: Researchers Used Medical Tech To Unwrap Ancient Mummies

Maggie Sieger
August 28, 2017
In Ancient Egypt, mummification was about more than just burying the dead. People commonly purchased mummified animals to present as offerings to various gods. As so often happens in the marketplace, it turns out there were a lot of fakes — but just what constituted a fake is being reconsidered.
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History

When This 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Finally Got Her Checkup, Doctors Discovered A Surprising Secret

Tomas Kellner
June 05, 2016

In 1909, a New York businessman named Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board member. Brown and generations of subsequent researchers believed that he brought home a female mummy dating from the 21st Dynasty and a male one from the Ptolemaic period.

But when Emory University Egyptologist Peter Lacovara visited the institute in the early 2000s, he felt that the female mummy wasn’t in the coffin in which she was originally buried. Maybe it wasn’t a mummy of a woman at all.

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