the mother of Ankhekhonsu, an ancient Egyptian priest, was transferred from Bergamo’s Civic Archaeological Museum to Milan’s Policlinico hospital.
Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as a part of a search project to get its secrets.
The mummy of Ankhekhonsu, an ancient Egyptian priest, was transferred from Bergamo’s Civic Archaeological Museum to Milan’s Policlinico hospital, where experts will shed light on his life and therefore the burial customs of just about 3,000 years ago.
“The mummies are practically a biological museum, they’re sort of a container ,” said Sabina Malgora, the director of the mother Project Research.
Malgora said information on the mummy’s name comes from the sarcophagus dated between 900 and 800 BC, where Ankhekhonsu – which suggests ‘the god Khonsu is alive’ – is written five times.
Researchers believe they will reconstruct the life and death of the Egyptian priest and understand which sorts of products were wont to mummify the body.
“Studying ancient diseases and wounds is vital for contemporary medical research … we will study the cancer or the arteriosclerosis of the past and this will be useful for contemporary research,” she said.
