Mummy's the word at the Field Museum this Halloween, which is using some new technology to unlock the secrets of the dead.
Mummy's the word at the Field Museum this Halloween, which is using some new technology to unlock the secrets of the dead.On Tuesday, researchers at the Field showed off the results of a big project to CT scan most of their mummy collection. They’re getting a fresh new look at some very old bodies.For decades, the Field Museum mummy collection has captivated—and sometimes terrified—millions of visitors, especially at Halloween.
"So if the mummies can't go to the scanner, what we can do is bring the scanner to the mummies," said Brown.That’s what they did in September, bringing a CT scanner inside a truck to the parking lot outside the Field.The results so far are amazing, showing soft tissue details never seen before and helping the Field learn about who they have—rather than what they have."These are people. They lived lives. Had names," said Drake.
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