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6.16.5 Conclusions
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‘The exhibition at the British Museum has proved a great success, attracting
388 000 visitors. Since the mummy has never been unwrapped, the models of
the skull, bowl and amulets are key elements in the display, providing an
essential complement to the non-invasive images obtained from CT scans. The
models have also been used successfully at the museum in handling sessions
for visually impaired visitors.’
Quote by Dr John Taylor, Assistant Keeper at the Department of Ancient
Egypt & Sudan, The British Museum.
6.16.6 References
The Nesperennub case was shown in the major exhibition ‘Mummy: the
inside story’ at the British Museum, London and described in the accompanying
book of the same name by Dr John Taylor (14) and featured in a
TV documentary shown in the UK on Channel 5.
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computed tomography of the mummy Wenuhotep’, American
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Egyptian mummy’, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 8 (5), 992–7.
5. Dawson W R, Gray P H K (1968), Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities in the
British Museum: 1 mummies and human remains, London, British Museum
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x-ray computed tomography’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 87 (12),
806–8.
7. Foster G S, Connolly J E, Wang J Z, Teeter E, Mengoni P M, ‘Evaluation of
an ancient Egyptian mummy with spiral CT and three-dimensional reconstructions’,
Self directed display on the World Wide Web, Radiological Society of
North America/RadioGraphics Archives, available on the Internet at http://ej.
rsna.org/, accessed May 2006.
8. Jacobs P F (1996), Stereolithography and other RP&M Technologies: from
Rapid Prototyping to Rapid Tooling, Dearborn MI, USA, Society of
Manufacturing Engineering, ISBN: 0872634671.
9. Nedden D, Knapp R, Wicke K, Judmaier W, Murphy W A, Seidler H, Platzer
W (1994), ‘Skull of a 5,300 year old mummy: reproduction and investigation
with CT guided stereolithography’, Radiology, 193 (1), 269–72.