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ストラップ in Around The World Researchers had discovered more than 30 bodies of crocodile cubs and a hook possibly made of brass inside the crocodile mummy by means of X-ray CT. Hey! Stop Damage Your Inspired シルバーリング 1. The Crocodile Mummy Mask: the recently conducted CT scan unveiled this 2000-year old mysterious ancient Egyptian crocodile mummy in the picture, the scan results showed that there was a real crocodile behind that mask. In April, Stanford Medical College in Califolia scanned two mummies, one of which is the one that is 8 feet(about 2.4 meters) and once wrapped up by linen, it is published in these group pictures.

Two crocodile mummies are still kept in Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California. The administrator, Ellison Lewis, in museum said that the scan showed that at least two Nile crocodile bones mixed together including two skulls, a scapula and a femur. They were bought by philanthropist Phoebe Hearst in Egypt in the end of the 19th century with their origins still remaining mysterious. Recently, researchers have been amending and studying them. The "Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past" was held in Phoebe Hearst Anthropology Museum last week, and where the two mummies were shown to the public. It is a common act for Ancient Egyptian to make animal mummies. The people of Phoebe Hearst Anthropology Museum said that: "Ancient Egyptians often made antiseptic process to several thousands of crocodiles and buried them in a huge grave as sacrificial offerings to Sobek. "

2. The Crocodile Ballast? This crocodile mummy in Hearst museum is full of mysteries as it consisted of an adult crocodile carcass and a cub. When it was purchased in 1899, the original packing material had long been lost. Scientists hoped to discover the secrets hiding inside the crocodile. Deputy administrator at Hearst museum, Jane Williams said that the CT scan had revealed strange white substance (at the lower right side), they could be some stones which were devoured by crocodile as ballast to keep the balance in the water. The administer Louis remarked, CT scan is a non-intrusive research method which can reveal the internal of the mummy in detail. 3. Baby crocodile mummy: adult crocodile mummy which had been opened was about 5.5 feet long (about 1.7 meters). Its back was "ridden" by more than 30 cub crocodile mummies. The specialists claimed that for Nile crocodiles, the cubs stayed to the back of their parents was a relatively common way of moving.

Hearst Museum blog said the crocodile cub bodies were originally wrapped with linen cloth and stuck to the body of the adult crocodile by sticky "mummy balm". Ancient Egyptians dealt with the bodies with balsam for embalmment. The balms applied the body of the crocodile was a mixture of conifer resin, beeswax and fat, and these were also the materials to produce human mummies. This finding was apparently rejected the opinion of “the production of animal mummies was of lower cost and the process was more so-so”. However this tar-like substance would also degrade with time as some of the crocodile cubs finally fell off many years later. Thus, Louis and Williams applied a synthetic binder to re-stick those cubs back on.

The fourth point is the 3D picture of the mummy. A 3D side view showed the babies in the back. In the lab of Stanford University, researchers scanned the two mummies; one was by the bedside scanner with low resolution. The other uses a high-distinguishing scanner. The latter one can produce 3D pictures and shows more details. The blogs of Stanford Medical School shows that the calcium deficiency cans only be discovered by the high-distinguishing scanner.

The fifth issue is the sacrificed crocodile. Williams said that the results of high resolution scan showed each part of the crocodile was wrapped by stems of papyrus to reinforce. The ancient Egyptians had made two kinds of crocodile mummy of which one was the sacred mummy regarded as the incarnation of the crocodile god Sobek, while the other kind was for sacrifice. The sacrificial crocodiles lived in the lake near the temple, particularly in the region of Awil Fayum, Egypt. The visitors of the temple would make a donation, and then priests offered embalmed sacrifices, that were, crocodile mummies and then to buried the crocodile in the name of the donor.

The sixth point is the fishhook inside the crocodile. Lewis said that the unfold crocodile scanned by the low resolution still hidden many details, as showed following. In comparison, the scan gram above with high resolution got some interesting new details Skeletal remains of the prey and a fishhook were found in the belly of the crocodile by the researchers, the following analysis showed that the fishhook was produced applying the ancient Egyptian fishhook technology, it could be devoured by the crocodile at its last meal. Williams said that the hook was not corroded, which indicates that it could be made of bronze.