![]() ![]() Egyptian museum collections around the world. Ancient Egyptian wigs in the Cairo and other museums. The construction of an ancient Egyptian wig (c. In: Gill-Frerking H, Rosendahl W, Zink A, editors. Standard of mummification in Graeco-Roman child mummies. 1998 107:417–20.ĭavey J, Bowyer GA, Hagenmaier C, Ranson D, Robertson S, et al. Twentieth-century replication of an Egyptian mummy: implications for paleopathology. Raman spectroscopy of natron: shedding light on ancient Egyptian mummification. 2010 195:28–35.Įdwards HG, Currie KJ, Ali HR, Jorge Villar SE, David AR, Denton J, et al. The application of laser scanning confocal microscopy to the examination of hairs and textile fibers: an initial investigation. Some properties of keratin biomaterials: Kerateines. Microbeam synchrotron imaging of hairs from ancient Egyptian mummies. 1993 1201:582–9.īertrand L, Doucet J, Dumas P, Simionovici A, Tsoucaris G, Walter P. Hair melanins and hair color: ultrastructural and biochemical aspects. The use of forensic radiology in determination of unexplained head injuries in child mummies - cause of death or mummification damage? J Forensic Radiol Imaging. Harmondsworth: Penguin 1954.ĭavey J, Drummer OH. A review of the material used during the mummification processes in ancient Egypt. Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco/Roman mummies. The utilisation of modern forensic imaging in the investigation of Graeco-Roman child mummies. Forensic human identification: an introduction. Forensic human identification : an introduction. The occurrence of natron in ancient Egypt. The use of natron by the ancient Egyptians in mummification. Evidence for prehistoric origins of Egyptian mummification in late neolithic burials. Jones J, Higham TFG, Oldfield R, O'Connor TP, Buckley SA. Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Schuenemann VJ, Peltzer A, Welte B, van Pelt WP, Molak M, Wang CC, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983.įreeman C. ![]() Trigger BG, Kemp BJ, O'Connor D, Llyod AB. Death and the afterlife in ancient Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press 1976. Ancient Egyptian literature: the new kingdom. London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1968.īowman AK. Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities in the British museum, mummies and human remains. London: Thames & Hudson 1998.ĭawson W, Gray PHK. The mummy in ancient Egypt: equipping the dead for eternity. This study concluded that the fair hair observed in the three child mummies was not the result of exposure to natron or post mortem changes but rather it was probably due to ancestry because of the presence of diverse genomes that were introduced into ancient Egypt during the Greco-Roman Period. There was not any evidence that hair lightened as the result of natural post mortem changes and this was confirmed by the study of the natural hair wigs that had not changed color post mortem. Results of the study showed no significant lightening of hair color and in several samples the hair significantly darkened as the result of exposure to the natron. Ancient wigs were studied for evidence of post mortem changes to hair color since construction over 2,000 years ago. Macroscopic and microscopic examinations of samples were employed to ascertain any significant changes in hair color after treatment. Fourteen samples of modern hair from various age groups, sex and ethnicity were subjected to synthetic natron for a period of 40 days to replicate the time taken to mummify a body. To determine if exposure to natron during the mummification process was responsible for the fair hair color an experiment was carried out to partially replicate the environment in which bodies were desiccated. In the majority of unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummified bodies the hair was not fair but rather dark brown or black. In an examination of three unwrapped mummified children from the Graeco-Roman Period of ancient Egypt there was an unexpected finding of fair hair. ![]()
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