• E-mail
• Print
• Comment
• Font Size
• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Discuss article

Scientists in Silicon Valley Reach Back 2,000 Years to Bring Egyptian Child Mummy Back to Life

Posted on: Thursday, 4 August 2005, 15:00 CDT

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists, doctors and computer experts in Silicon Valley teamed up to generate the most detailed, high definition 3D models ever created from scanning an ancient mummy. Examining a two-thousand- year-old child mummy from San Jose's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium, scientists were able to generate 35 times more information than the recent King Tut mummy scans. These super high resolution images allowed researchers to "virtually unwrap" and remodel the child mummy without disturbing its delicately preserved form.

This rare footage shows how researchers scanned and analyzed several areas of the mummy child -- hands, teeth, feet, skull, groin, spine and chest plate -- and found answers to many scientific questions: how old was the child when it died? Did the child die from a disease? And what kind of family was she born into?

This video shows specialists from Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center using new visualization computer technologies to examine the mummified remains in unprecedented high resolution 3D models that look almost real.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Video, hard copy requests, contact information and more at http://www.prnewswire.com/broadcast/22419/consumer.shtml

VIDEO PROVIDED BY: Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Intel Corporation.

Video: http://www.prnewswire.com/broadcast/22419/consumer.shtml

Silicon Graphics, Inc.; Intel Corporation

CONTACT: MultiVu Media Relations, 800-653-5313 EXT. 3

Web site: http://www.multivu.com/

Source: PRNewswire

More News in this Category