3,200-Year-Old Female Mummy Undergoes Scans
- 8 years ago
Researchers at Stanford recently subjected a mysterious 3,200-year-old mummy to a comprehensive CT scan in an attempt to unravel her ancient mysteries.
There's a mummy called Hatason, and radiologists at Stanford University are intent on deciphering her secrets.
She died around 3,200 years ago in Egypt. And her name isn't really Hatason.
Jonathan Elias, the director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, said, "That is a corruption, we believe, of the name of a famous queen, Hatshepsut.”
Shrouded in mystery and quite literally, a CT scan revealed the following:
There's a mummy called Hatason, and radiologists at Stanford University are intent on deciphering her secrets.
She died around 3,200 years ago in Egypt. And her name isn't really Hatason.
Jonathan Elias, the director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, said, "That is a corruption, we believe, of the name of a famous queen, Hatshepsut.”
Shrouded in mystery and quite literally, a CT scan revealed the following: