...Despoina E Flouri; Efstratios Kougios; Efthimios Fasoulakis; Konstantinos Spanakis; Elena F Kranioti; Antonios Papadomanolakis forensic sciences forensic anthropology forensic imaging mummification asphyxia A full autopsy showed no evidence of trauma or foreign objects in the body. A left...

...), characterized by focal cellular reaction and organization. Dural venous sinuses had thrombosis and recanalization, as well as iron deposition. In nonperfused brain areas, tissue “mummification,” akin to that seen in certain postmortem conditions, including macerated stillbirths and saponification (adipocere...

.... There is no evidence of wound-healing, so this is the most likely cause of death. New research attempts to identify the weapons/instruments involved and concludes the Takabuti was murdered. Imaging analysis has also provided information about the mummification procedure. At the time of Takabuti’s death...

... religion, looking at the Ancient Egyptian worldview, mummification and afterlife, and the role of the temples in economy and administration. The second section considers new developments in Egyptian religion such as listening gods, animal cults, Egyptian “saints”, oracles, dreams, and katochê. The third...

...This article discusses mummies and mummification in Roman Egypt. The question of whether mummies from Roman Egypt attest a decline or a late heyday of mummification techniques can be answered firmly in favour of the latter. The different but generally high standards of embalming, using traditional...

... this important biocultural heritage and understand local mummification practices. This study sheds new light on mortuary customs and funeral variability in the region and contextualizes and interprets this treatment of the dead through comparisons with the anthropological and sociological literature. Nystrom...

..., and the team had to improvise. Still, the X-ray of the skull is fascinating, and Harrison’s collaborator Dr. R. C. Connolly kindly sent me a copy. Harrison’s X-ray allows us to look back thirty-three hundred years and reconstruct the mummification 146 of Tutankhamun. However, we must remember we are dealing...

... of the mummy’s skeletal structure was missing or displaced; there were wasp nests in the skull. Some body parts had been replaced by dummies made of wood and cloth, and a network of wooden poles could be detected throughout the mummy. Some of these anomalies were clearly not part of the original mummification...

... the administrative, economic, and cultural life of the country. king role of Amenhotep son of Hapu architecture Egyptian Horus god Karnak temples art Egyptian Abydos British Museum Den king hieroglyphs cartouches Re god Tutankhamun linen mummification shendyt kilt skirt Tanwetamani king Amun Re god...

...2004 Osiris, the god of the dead and the afterlife, is one of the earliest in the Egyptian pantheon, probably starting off as a fertility god linked with agriculture, and maybe even also the Nile ‘inudation’. ‘Death: mummification, dismemberment, and the cult of Osiris’ considers the 1st-Dynasty...

...Table 3.1. Percentage of adults and subadults with artificial mummification at various Chinchorro sites Adults Subadults Subadults for categories of age Fetuses Newborns Infants Children Juveniles Sites N % N...

... that these special tombs may have been for much more than disposal of the dead. cannibalism clients druids firedogs gaming-board/pieces mummification personhood slaves/slavery sling-stones/slingers stable isotope analysis warriors “Aylesford--Swarling” culture burial zone Most studies of Iron Age burial...

... narratives feasting gift exchange hillforts isotope analysis mummification ringworks In 2004, excavation in advance of the construction of a bypass around Mitchelstown in County Cork uncovered a number of pits on the banks of the Gradoge River ( Kiely and Sutton 2007 ). On the bottom of one...

...For Laura and Alec PREFACE Mummified human remains remain human remains in spite of being mummified. I have mumbled this mantra for most of my adult life. It reminds me that the act of mummification does not render a human being into the equivalent of a stone tool or a painted pot. An Egyptian...

... Egyptian mummification and Egyptian funerary beliefs are important areas of study within the broader subject of ‘death’. Abydos cemeteries Djer King Hierakonpolis mace heads Narmer Osiris god Petrie Flinders Umm el Qa’ab cemeteries Abydos Amélineau Émile Andjety god Bible Byblos port of Djedu...

..., one that also affected the Pharos and Mausoleum far to the north. Although the Pyramids have been empty for a long time, the pharaoh’s body must have been preserved by mummification using natural materials like natrun and enclosed in an inner sarcophagus decorated with gold and precious stones. Giza...

...0 17 12 1998 It is generally accepted that in the first centuries BCE and CE the dead in the city of Rome and in most of the Roman empire were almost invariably cremated, although other practices were followed on the fringes of the empire, e.g. embalming and mummification in Egypt, secondary...

... chambers carbonate coffins dowel jointed coffins grave robbers hot environments layers mummification perfume rock cut tombs Roman citizens sand sealing tombs witnesses afterlife amulets cloth high status burials limestone mud mummies safe passage sheets bowls crania drinking ebes...

...The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive offerings. Here, a series of studies...

...Work carried out on the animal mummies in the Egyptian Museum, as well as in other collections, shows that, like humans, animals were mummified in a variety of ways throughout Egyptian history. This chapter describes different methods employed for mummification. Mummification basically involves...