The British Museum has announced a new partnership with the South Korean giant Samsung , the purpose of which will be a thorough scanning, digitization and creation of 3D-models of the remains of eight Egyptian mummies on display in the museum.
With the latest developments in the field of Samsung computed tomography, researchers can look inside the fragile mummies without destroying them in the process. With mummies for this scan does not even have to remove the matter, in which the Egyptians had wrapped the body of the deceased. Powerful scanners without problems build detailed image of what lies inside the mummified body. Mummies investigated, by the way, more than 4000 years.
The resulting 3D-images allow you to see what is beneath the matter, including jewelry, hairstyle and even mummified human health status at the time of his death. Museum staff promise to finish interactive 3D-models of mummies to November 30, 2014, it was then that the fruit of joint works Samsung and British researchers will be presented to the public. In the meantime, we have access to only a couple of pictures and video advertising, giving to understand what all this will look like in the end. The more detail you can read about these studies on the website of the British Museum.