“How to Cat Scan a Mummy”

The Saturday, July 18 NT ARCE meeting centers on a local mystery – a child mummy, wrapped in a manner that indicated wealth and love, now residing in a Houston museum. But who was the child, and what lay inside the wrappings?

To solve that mystery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston asked The University of Texas Medical School at Houston’s Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging to perform a computed tomography (CT) scan on the tiny figure.

The museum has updated its description of the mummy and included an image of the scan in the gallery in the atrium on the second level of the Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street.

Please join NT ARCE in Room 123 of Fondren Hall, SMU, to hear this fascinating lecture and the discoveries made by Dr. Sandra Oldham as she attempted to learn the secrets of the Houston mummy.

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