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Computer experts in the United States’ Silicon Valley used 21st century science to virtually revive a two-century-old Egyptian mummy.
Technicians at computing visualisation company Silicon Graphics Incorporated used body scan data to create three-dimensional imagery of a mummified girl kept at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose since about 1930.
‘‘This mummy is no longer just a fascinating artifact, but a lively young child who lived many ages ago,’’ said museum curator Lisa Schwappach-Shirriff. Museum workers dubbed the girl mummy ‘‘Sherit’’, which they said is ancient Egyptian for ‘‘little one’’.
Sherit was close to five-years-old when she died, and the absence of signs of injury suggests she succumbed to dysentery or another illness common among children in the Nile Valley at the time. —AFP
Burial of Pak mummy
KARACHI: The mummified body of a young woman once thought to be an ancient Persian princess, will be buried later this month by a Pakistani welfare group. Found in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta in 2000, the body was at the centre of an archaeological and diplomatic dispute for two years before scientists at Pakistan’s Atomic Research Council pronounced it just 20 years old. REUTERS
