Amsc Database Research

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Located deep 300 miles south of Cairo, the ancient city of Akhmim is part of the rich landscape of the ancient Egyptian heartland. The ancient population of Akhmim has been beckoning to scholars for decades. Mummies from the site are available in museums throughout the world, but have only recently been looked at systematically, that is, as a recognizable group distinct from other ancient Egyptian mummies. This work has been pioneered by the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, through comparison of CT-scans of mummies from the site. Research on the mummies of Akhmim began with the well-known autopsy of the mummy known as PUM II (Pennsylvania University Museum II), performed by a multidisciplinary team led by Aidan Cockburn in 1973. With the development of CT (computed tomography), the study of mummies was put on a new, non-invasive footing. The dispersed mummies of Akhmim were a focal point of early CT research both in Hannover , Germany and in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ( USA ). The Milwaukee project, spearheaded by Carter Lupton, formed the nucleus of the current, expanded project of the Consortium

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