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ME Torino Mummy Project

ME Torino Mummy Study and Conservation Project

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Project duration: January 2017 - December 2023
Project status: ongoing
Funding:
Internal funding EURAC (Project)
Total project budget: €270,000.00

In this research project the whole collection of Egyptian mummies (>100) housed in the Museum of Egyptolgy in Torino, Italy will undergo a detailed scientific examination. In a first step, the mummies will be radiologically investigated by using a mobile CT scanner. The CT data will be used for an anthropological analysis in order to determine the age, sex and state of preservation of each mummy. In collaboration with our cooperation partner, the HORUS group, the mummies will be analyzed for the presence of arterial calcifications (atherosclerosis). In a further step, small biopsy samples will be taken from all mummies where an access to soft or bone tissue is present. The samples will be subjected to activity water analysis, radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis in the framework of the project "Mummy Atherosclerosis" for the evaluation of genetic risk factors related ot cardiovascular diseases in the mummies.

Publications

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in mummies: A polygenic risk score based on a genetic enrichment approach
Wurst C, Maixner F, Valverde G, Tessmann B, Krause-Kyora B, Krause J, Del Vesco P, Helmbold-Doyé J, Hotz G, Thompson R, Zink A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 10th World Congress on Mummy Studies | Bolzano | 5.9.2022 - 9.9.2022

Four thousand years of maternal ancestry in ancient Egypt illuminated by mitochondrial genome sequencing
Mussauer A, Wurst C, Paladin A, Coia V, Maixner F, Helmbold-Doyé J, Del Vesco P, Rosendahl W, Zink A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 10th World Congress on Mummy Studies | Bolzano | 5.9.2022 - 9.9.2022

The other face of musealization: 3D computerized reconstruction of the facial features of an Egyptian mummy
Manzollino R, Rodella L, Del Vesco P, Zink A, Conti V, Paladin A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 10th World Congress on Mummy Studies | Bolzano | 5.9.2022 - 9.9.2022

You and Me: incontro con i soci della Fondazione del ME di Torino
Paladin A, Facchetti F, Töpfer S (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: you and me | ONLINE | 14.1.2022 - 14.1.2022

Mummy of vizir Imhotep: interdisciplinary study and restoration work
Facchetti F, Paladin A, Aicardi S, Manzollino R, Sutherland ML, Wurst C, Mussauer A, Samadelli M, Zink A, Greco C (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 10th World Congress on Mummy Studies | Bolzano | 5.9.2022 - 9.9.2022

Face to face with human remains: the case study of an Egyptian mummy’s facial reconstruction
Conti V, Rodella L, Del Vesco P, Zink A, Manzollino R, Paladin A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Le scienze e i beni culturali| innovazione e multidisciplinarietà | Milano : 19.9.2022 - 20.9.2022

Assessment of embalming techniques in Egyptian mummies using computed tomography:
Zink A, Paladin A (2021)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: The art of embalming| practice, evolution and materiality Egyptological colloquium British Museum | London : 31.8.2021 - 3.9.2021

Correlation of atherosclerosis and osteoarthritis in ancient Egypt: A standardized evaluation of 45 whole-body CT examinations
Panzer S, Augat P, Sprenger M, Zesch S, Rosendahl W, Sutherland ML, Thompson RC, Paladin A, Zink A (2021)
Journal article
International Journal of Paleopathology

More information: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.04.004

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.04.004

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/17151

The mummy of Hathor-ta-scherit-net-Osiris: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection)
Zink A, Paladin A, Panzer S (2020)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Annual Egyptological lectures and colloquia | London | 6.2.2020 - 8.2.2020

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/15007

A First Assessment of the Conservation of the Mummified Human Remains in the Museo Egizio in Turin in the Framework of the “Mummy Conservation Project”
Samadelli M, Gregori G, Maixner F, Rossani M, Del Vesco P, Borla M, Paladin A, Wurst C, Sterflinger-Gleixner K, Voitl C, Cibin M, Thomas GS, Frohlich B, Thompson RC, Zink AR (2019)
Journal article
Rivista del Museo Egizio

More information: https://doi.org/10.29353/rime.2019.2765

https://doi.org/10.29353/rime.2019.2765

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/11799

Anthropological and Paleopathological study: preliminary results
Paladin A, Zink A, Frohlich B, Sutherland ML, Sutherland J, Zesch S (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 2nd Horus EURAC Torino Museum conjoint symposium | Bolzano | 14.10.2019 - 14.10.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14858

The Eurac project
Zink A, Paladin A, Wurst C, Samadelli M, Mussauer A, Maixner F (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Human Remains. Ethics, Conservation, Display | Torino | 30.9.2019 - 1.10.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14951

Preliminary Biopsy findings, Turin mummies
Frohlich B, Wurst C, Paladin A, Zink A (2017)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Horus-Eurac conjoint symposium on the fundamental etiologies of atherosclerosis | Torino | 1.4.2017 - 1.4.2017

Preliminary aDNA analysis of Egyptian mummies of the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin
Wurst C (2017)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Horus-Eurac conjoint symposium on the fundamental etiologies of atherosclerosis | Torino | 1.4.2017 - 1.4.2017

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