A wide range of investigations using modern scientific techniques such as radiology, detailed dental studies, histo-pathology, electron microscopy – TEM, AEM, SEM – and finger-printing were carried out on a number of Egyptian mummies from the Manchester Museum. This review analyses in detail experiments in mummifying rals, following the descriptions of Herodotus; the unwrapping of a mummy under carefully controlled and recorded conditions and the reconstruction, on scientific principles, of heads and faces of three mummies.
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