April
20
/ 2023
Researchers from the British Museum have just completed a landmark study of animal coffins retrieved from various Egyptian excavation sites and held in their Egyptian collection. In a new article appearing in Scientific Reports, lead researcher Daniel O’Flynn and his colleagues introduce the results of their examination of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins, all of which were dated to between 650 and 250 BC. Using a non-invasive technology known as neutron tomography, the researchers scanned the interiors of the coffins, to see if they could find any remaining traces of the animals that were entombed inside them. Much to their delight, they were indeed able to detect actual biological materials in the coffins, which could be linked to specific
