CT scanning ancient Egyptian mummies | #CuratorsCorner S7 Ep1

Over the past 10 years, scientific investigation of ancient Egyptian mummies has advanced immensely. We now know more about ancient Egyptian health, diet, lifestyle and death than ever before. But this new approach to the study of Egyptian mummies is also teaching us a lot about the history of disease, revealing that many 'modern' diseases have been with us for far longer that we originally thought.

Join British Museum curators Daniel Antoine and Marie Vandenbeusch as they introduce you to a 4-year-old boy from the Roman period in Egypt and share what he, and other mummies, can tell us about life from 2000-years-ago, right up until today.

[Pembroke.]

Simply amazing how technology keeps improving to unlocking the past, thanks for sharing all your hard work.

[mostlyreliable]

It is amazing just how far technology has come!

[danielrowsey]

Daniel Antoine is my spirit animal. His videos are always so fascinating. I just love his voice, its always so calm. His video on mummy tattoos has an almost ASMRish quality to it.

[susanne]

I really like that we are able to see so much of the mummy without having to destroy anything. And without hurting the ancients' feeling about their dead too much: we still took the dead from their graves ... Even if I don't exactly believe in anything spiritual - I like to respect other people's beliefs.

[larrysingleton]

It's touching to see that the parents loved this child. And I think that it was something special to have left this rare portrait of him. This is the first time I've seen something like this on an Egyptian mummy.

[wordylittlebird]

Very seredipitous. I'm in an Egyptology grad program and me and my classmate gave presentations on mummification techniques and amulets just yesterday. Which amulets did the child have on him? If whoever runs the channel knows...

[debbralehrman]

Thank you for the information. The change in the contrast over the 10 years is amazing.

[VincentGroenewold]

Do we really think cancer is modern? Seems really odd as it's a very easy thing to happen, it's just that, since we live so much healthier and have medicine, that cancer is one of the things that's left. :) Amazing scanning technique, really nice!

[EIixir]

I didn't know we could see mummies in so much detail. Thankyou for sharing.

[miniee]

Amazing efforts 😍I still remember the tour you made for itp2017 explaining the results of your studies on our Egyptian mummies ✨ simply I was amazed . I am wishing you all the best

[antoniettabroadhurst]

Thank you for a super inside to this mummy. I also like the fact you have no music that drowns what your saying. I came upon your sit by chance but I have now subscribe ....I like the way you present yourselves on video.

[hughmarloweverest]

Very intriguing keep up the good work my friends this scanning business is the bomb.

[sluxi]

This is quite interesting but like other commenters I think the only rational assumption was that cancer has been there all along. I appreciate that with the way we tend to romanticize nature & the past some people might not be thinking clearly about it though. On the other hand cardiovascular disease is more surprising but then again like you say the people at the top of society can have lived relatively comfortable lives at this point already.

[MrChillerNo]

Very intersting! Good video. great content

[marian]

fascinating, thank you so much for sharing this type of information, which gives such interesting insights which would not be accessible otherwise

[bevmacdonald]

The high incidence of dental diseases coinciding with arterial sclerosis suggests to me that it was plaque that was the main culprit causing all those clogged arteries

[Dan.]

Very interesting fascinating video, thank you

[franzrogar]

It'd be great if they could also apply some X-ray tomography (used to read documents) to see if the cardboards are re-used documents. That way maybe we can recover some lost texts or even complete Sapho's poetry (with last poem recovered from one of those cardboard masks in 2014).

[lynnblack]

Really informative. What wonderful scans!

[davidinmossy]

Actuall seeing a portrait of the person is fascinating !!