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Mummies Taken To Hospital For CT-Scan

It's a boy! (Lady Hor 37.50E)Last week the Brooklyn Museum took four of their ancient Egyptian mummies to the North Shore University Hospital in Long Island, as they were in dying need of a CT-scan. Pure Archaeology 2.0, not only because of the use of modern technology, but because the museum staff used 'the web 2.0' to document their trip and the scanning of the mummies as it was happening on Twitter - #mummyCT - and Flickr. Over at pyramidofman.com there's an elaborate report on the mummies' journey, but here are some of the highlights of this episode of CSI: Mummy:

Mummy 'Lady Hor' is in fact a man

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