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Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy

State of the art MRT scanner peers into history

Tags: history, laboratory, science

By Nick Heath

Published: 28 February 2008 12:50 GMT


A millennium after his death this boy from Peru, pictured here, is revealing secrets to Swiss scientists thanks to pioneering new scanning technology. The magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) scanner and new analysis technique developed by Siemens Healthcare offered an unrivalled glimpse inside his mummified corpse.

Photo credit: Siemens


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