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Mammies. They're the stuff of horror movies and happy archaeologists. Now the American Association of Anatomists have turned their attention to mummies. They've devoted the entire latest issue of their journal, The Anatomical Record, to the subject.

Papers in the edition cover topics such as the bog

bodies of Northern Europe, the intestinal contents of a Korean mummy, a case study for an

Egyptian mummy with a prosthetic toe, and a code of ethics for research with ancient human remains.

Most mummy research is done on actual discovered remains, but some investigations try to reconstruct

mummification techniques

to figure out just how ancient peoples did it. For example, in 1994, researchers at the University

of Maryland, Baltimore attempted to recreate Egyptian mummification using a donated cadaver. In a paper in

the new mummy issue, scientists conducted a variety of scans on that cadaver to see if they could

figure out the

process without asking the researchers who did the 1994 work. They determined that the body was male,

likely elderly, and probably a modern professional in the, quote, middle or elite social class.

The authors also described the incisions and the embalming materials that they could ascertain

from the scans. They then took the results to the original embalmers, who deemed their findings to be

largely correct. These kinds of comparisons provide a method to test the accuracy of our

evaluation of mummies, because many of the secrets of the ancient Egyptian embalmers are,

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