Four Brooklyn Mummies Hospitalized!

The Brooklyn Museum has taken four of their eleven human mummies to get CT scans at North Shore Hospital on Long Island... and they're updating their Flickr account with photos and live Twittering. Surely so much technology can't be good for the mummified soul. They tell us that "Through the CT scanning, Brooklyn Museum curators hope to learn more about each of the four mummies and the ancient civilization in which they lived. The Mummies that will undergo CT scanning are a Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, who is more three thousand years old; the Lady Hor on view in her elaborately painted cartonnage since 1993, some two thousand years old; Thothirdes, over 2,500 years and; and a mummy about which little is known, that dates back to the first century C. E." And so far today they found out that Lady Hor is a really a man, baby.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on June 23, 2009 12:53 PM

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NannyState

"Early detection is key."

just saying

Note to self: cancel my appointment for CT scan at North Shore Hospital.

Rocknrope

Is Abbott and Costello manning the cat scan machine?

Oh ch-ch-ch-chiikkk!

shovel

It's interesting that people are generally put off by the sight of most dead bodies, with the exception of mummies.

In any case, I hope North Shore is also providing CT scans to uninsured live people!

PKinNYC

wow sassy picture headings: "Lady Hor's scans reveal she's a man! And has no brain. Related?"

The mummy was thought to be a woman named(w)HOR(e)related???

Nyctini11

WOW, cross dressing dates back that far?!

Really retarded when you read the Museums reasoning behind thinking it was a woman, "because there was no beard" Really? There isn't some more scientific way to figure this stuff out? I know plenty of men who can't grow beards.

WesleySnipesAlot

I think they meant that the sarcophagus did not have a beard... most men of stature (especially kings) had a long narrow beard on their death mask or sarcophagus.