![]() Received: AugAccepted: JanuPublished: February 21, 2020Ĭopyright: © 2020 Berruyer et al. ![]() PLoS ONE 15(2):Įditor: William Oki Wong, Indiana University Bloomington, UNITED STATES This unexpected finding demonstrates that earlier knowledge obtained from textual and other archaeological sources does not sufficiently reflect the diversity of mummification protocols implemented by Ancient Egyptians.Ĭitation: Berruyer C, Porcier SM, Tafforeau P (2020) Synchrotron “virtual archaeozoology” reveals how Ancient Egyptians prepared a decaying crocodile cadaver for mummification. ![]() organs, muscles, and even most of the skeleton) was removed to cease further putrefaction. Except for the head and the extremities of the limbs, everything beneath the skin of the crocodile (i.e. Here, we present detailed insight into the complex post-mortem treatment of a decaying crocodile cadaver in preparation for mummification. This state-of-the-art non-destructive imaging technique revealed the complete interior anatomy of the mummy in three dimensions. ![]() Multi-scale propagation phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography was used to visualise an ancient Egyptian crocodile mummy housed at the Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France). ![]() Although Ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals over the course of one millennium, many details of these mummification protocols remain unknown. ![]()
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