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Credit: Robert Cheng, Paul Brown, and Rebecca Fahrig, Stanford University; and Christof Reinhart, Volume Graphics [see complete credits]
Researchers and computer engineers led by Paul Brown of Stanford University are helping to unravel an unopened and intact child mummy from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California. Radiologists used high-resolution computer tomography to generate 60,000 2D scans of the mummy, which were then fed into computers to create this 3D model of the mummy and its interior.
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