Spanish team reveals mummies’ secrets from the past with CT scan
National Archeology Museum and hospital join forces to produce reconstruction of the bodies in 3D
Of all the sick people undergoing a CT scan in the Spanish capital in recent times, few can have looked as unwell as the four patients at the QuirónSalud hospital on June 6 last year. Three Egyptian mummies and a Guanche – one of the original Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands – were taken from the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid to the clinic in the hope a scan would shed light on their past.
The research team presented the results of the scans last week in the Spanish capital: two of the Egyptian mummies donated to MAN in 1887 were found to be women between the ages of 25 and 40, one of whom was pregnant. The third Egyptian mummy, donated in 1925 and known as Nespamedu, turned out to be a male aged around 50 who was doctor to the pharaoh and priest to the high priest Imhotep in the 27th century BC.
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