FOX News: Virginia museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan

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Virginia museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan Feb 2nd 2013, 16:17 Published February 02, 2013 Associated Press Feb. 1, 2013: In this photo, CT technicians Marion Price, right, and Tesha Reid, front, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts art handler Tim Harriss, left, along with object conservator Kathy Gillis, middle center, prepare a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy called Tjeby, from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for a CT scan at the HCA Virginia Imaging center in Richmond, Va.AP Feb. 1, 2013: In this photo, a three-dimensional image of a CT scan from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy called Tjeby, from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is shown at the HCA Virginia Imaging center in Richmond, Va.AP Feb. 1, 2013: In this photo, art handler Randy Wilkinson, left, along with CT technician Marion Price, right, Tim Harriss, top right, and Kathy Gillis, second from left, rotate a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Tjeby, from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, during a CT scan at the HCA Virginia Imaging center in Richmond, Va.AP Next Slide Previous Slide RICHMOND, Va. –  A Virginia museum is using modern technology to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week with a local medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby (CHEH-bee), its 4,000-year-old mummy. Experts hope the scan will help piece together more information about the mummy itself, as well as a better understanding of the early history of the mummification process. Only a handful of mummies from the time period have been examined using this technology. The mummy underwent a CT scan in 1986, but newer equipment will provide greater detail of the body. It also will allow the information to be used to create a 3-D digital model and even reconstruct the mummy's face.

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