É com grande prazer que me vou juntar a estes profissionais, dirigidos pela estimada Profª Drª Rosalie David; http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/rosalie_david.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/mummies/ primeiro com formação e depois, insha'allah ...com colaboração científica.
Único centro do mundo que concentra equipas e materiais, preparado logisticamente para estudar múmias egípcias, esqueletos e resíduos para identificação de patologias, hábitos alimentares e de saúde bem como materiais usados na mumificação como o natrão e as resinas e estudo de próteses.
http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/07/prosthetics-in-.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070727-egypt-toe.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070727-egypt-toe.html
Em 2005 foi firmada a parceria com o Instituto Nacional de pesquisa do Cairo:
International alliance to unlock secrets of Egyptian mummies
A identificação de ADN dos corpos mumificados é hoje possível graças à evolução tecnológica e informática.
Manchester expert helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
Mummies unravel the Pharaohs' secrets
Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Resource for Scientific Research
Professor Rosalie David
Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
rosalie.david@man.ac.uk
Professor Rosalie David
Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
rosalie.david@man.ac.uk
Since 1973, the Manchester Egyptian Mummy Project has pioneered a multidisciplinary approach to the use of biomedical and scientific techniques to obtain data about disease, DNA identification, and mummification procedures. Key elements in this project have been the introduction of virtually non-destructive techniques, including radiology and endoscopy, to investigate mummified remains; the establishment of an epidemiological study of the schistosomiasis in ancient and modern Egypt, over a 5,000-year-period; and the inauguration of the International Ancient Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank. To date, the Bank has received over a thousand samples from mummies held in Egyptian collections in Europe, USA and Australia, and provides a loan resource for bona fide researchers working on specific scientific projects. In 1995, the University of Manchester introduced a unique Degree, the MSc in Biomedical and Forensic Studies in Egyptology, in order to continue the Manchester team’s expertise in this field, and there is also an active PhD and postdoctoral programme. This paper will summarise the contribution that the Manchester Project has made to Egyptology in general, and will consider how this area of study might be developed in the future.
The Experience of Ancient Egypt, Rosalie David, London: Routledge, 2000. pp.192
Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt, Rosalie David, New York: Facts-on-File, 1998. xvi + 382 pp.
Conversations With Mummies : New Light on the Lives of Ancient Egyptians by Rosalie David and Rick Archbold, 2000
Mais links de interesse relacionados com este centro de Manchester, Reino Unido:
BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF SOME CONSERVATION TREATMENTS FOR EGYPTIAN MUMMIES
5000 YEARS OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN EGYPT
Manchester Museum is studying this disease in mummies from all over the world as part of a research project which may help to eradicate the disease in modern Africa. In rural parts of Egypt, 80% of the population may be affected by schistosomiasis.
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
For science, mummy speaks louder than words
Mummies Myths & Magic (download posters)
More Egyptian Mummies Keep Telling Their Secrets
Dissecting the Mummies of Ancient Egypt
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