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3D Technology Unlocks Secrets Of 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Groundbreaking research by the British Museum in London utilizing SGI® (NYSE: SGI) visualization technologies has resulted in the first-ever virtual image of an Egyptian mummy locked away in its outer casing, raising new questions about the history of ancient mummies. Using an SGI® Reality Center(TM) facility to convert computed axial tomography (CAT) scan data into a remarkably lifelike 3D image, researchers have been able for the first time to determine what lies hidden beneath the casing, or cartonnage, of a 3,000-year-old mummy, Nesperennub, housed at the museum since 1899.