{"id":69249,"date":"2018-03-18T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=69249"},"modified":"2018-03-22T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:34:29","slug":"modern-technology-examines-mummies-without-unwrapping-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/modern-technology-examines-mummies-without-unwrapping-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern technology examines mummies without unwrapping them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Xinyi (Ethel) Jiang <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">The mummies have returned.<\/p>\n<p>After traveling around the country on exhibition for five years, 14 mummies came back home for a final run in Chicago at the Field Museum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Modern technology helps examine mummies in a non-disruptive way\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/260323562?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The primary theme of the exhibit is how scientists \u2014 using modern technologies such as CT scanning \u2014 can look inside the coffins and mummy bundles without actually unwrapping them. This leaves the mummies undamaged and allows future scientists with newer technologies to study them further, according to Patrick Ryan Williams, chair of the department of Anthropology at the Field Museum.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The mummy exhibition opened to the public last Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: The Field Museum uses CT scanning technology to examine mummies. March. 13, 2018. (Xinyi Jiang \/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Xinyi (Ethel) Jiang Medill Reports The mummies have returned. After traveling around the country on exhibition for five years, 14 mummies came back home for a final run in Chicago at the Field Museum. 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