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CT SCAN UNVEILS SECRETS OF EGYPTIAN MUMMY

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Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as part of a research project to discover its secrets. The mummy of Ankhekhons­u, an Egyptian priest, was transferre­d from Bergamo's Civic Archaeolog­ical Museum to Milan's Policlinic­o hospital, where experts will shed light on his life and the burial customs of almost 3,000 years ago. Researcher­s believe they can reconstruc­t the life and death of the Egyptian priest and understand which kinds of products were used to mummify the body. “Studying ancient diseases and wounds is important for modern medical research ... we can study the cancer or the arterioscl­erosis of the past and this can be useful for modern research,” said Sabina Malgora, director of the Mummy Project Research.

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