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The anatomy of the mummy: mortui viventes docent—when ancient mummies speak to modern doctors

Monge, Janet M; Rühli, Frank J (2015). The anatomy of the mummy: mortui viventes docent—when ancient mummies speak to modern doctors. The Anatomical Record, 298(6):935-940.

Abstract

There is almost a universal fascination with prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic human remains that preserve the soft tissues (nonskeletal) of the body (general definition of a mummy). While most people within the general public engage with mummies as part of a museum exhibit process, many scientists have taken that fascination much further. Starting as a general fascination with mummification, the scientific process involved in the study of mummies began in earnest in the late 18th Century AD. This issue of the Anatomical Record was conceived and formulated to bring together a series of researchers to highlight their most groundbreaking research on the scientific advances that surround the 21st Century AD study of these preserved biological beings including an illumination of the cultural processes that purposefully or inadvertently are preserved either within their tissues or are present within the context (archaeological) in which they are found (excavated). Twenty-six research articles are presented in this volume on a variety of topics all related to the rich transdisciplinary fields that are now directing their research efforts to the state-of-the art analysis of human mummified remains.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Dewey Decimal Classification:570 Life sciences; biology
610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Health Sciences > Anatomy
Life Sciences > Biotechnology
Health Sciences > Histology
Life Sciences > Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Language:English
Date:2015
Deposited On:28 May 2015 07:12
Last Modified:13 Oct 2024 01:38
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN:1932-8486
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23129
PubMed ID:25998629
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