After all, why should the living be the only ones to undergo a CT scan? Neha is the name of this astonishing patient who has come to the hospital in Lens for a CT scan. So far, so normal, but this is a 2900-year-old mummy, part of the Louvre Museum collection! According to the hospital, the examination provided valuable information for specialists at the Louvre's conservation center in Liévin.
Thanks to increasingly powerful machines, many answers can now be given about the way bodies were preserved and the traditions of the Egyptians. The team could see from the images that"the brain had been removed and the rib cage and mouth filled in", and that objects had been added to the mummy, such as a scarab, a pectoral plate and a necklace with amulets.
This precious parcel had to be handled with particular care to avoid damage. Another mummy, that of Séramon, had already undergone this examination before Neha, in Lyon.
