is one of the first to successfully use the typing of both mitochondrial and Y chromosomal DNA in Egyptian mummies. Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, said: “The ...

One ancient Egyptian medical text known as the ... Both bone tissue and intestinal content were sampled from the mummy for a kind of DNA testing known as 'shotgun metagenomics' — which tests ...

pestis DNA in an ancient Egyptian mummy of an adult male from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. The individual, who was anthropogenically mummified, was radiocarbon-dated from ...

Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a ... besides a sketch of the history of the practice in Egypt which, being written by the chief ...

The article explores the significance of Egyptian mummies ... Hatshepsut's mummy was identified in 2007 through DNA analysis and dental comparisons. Her successful reign and exceptional position ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...