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ME Torino Mummy Project

ME Torino Mummy Study and Conservation Project

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ME Torino Mummy Project
  • Project duration: -
  • Project status: ongoing
  • Funding:
    Internal funding EURAC (Project)

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
Genetic study of ancient Egyptian human remains dating from the Predynastic Period to the early Islamic Period (ca. 4000 cal. BCE - 800 cal. CE)
Mussauer A, Wurst C, Paladin A, Coia V, Maixner F, Zink A (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: New Horizons in Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA10) | Tartu | 13.9.2023 - 16.9.2023

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in mummies - A polygenic risk score based on a genetic enrichment approach
Wurst C, Maixner F, Paladin A, Mussauer A, Valverde G, Thompson R, Zink A (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: New Horizons in Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA10) | Tartu | 13.9.2023 - 16.9.2023

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

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

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

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

Our partners

Smithsonian , National Museum of Natural History

Egyptian Museum Torino

Superintendence of Cultural Heritage Torino

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, and University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, ...

Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, and University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, ...

Project Team
1 - 5
Marco Samadelli

Marco Samadelli

Project Manager
Alice Paladin

Alice Paladin

Vice Manager
Frank Maixner

Frank Maixner

Team Member
Albert Zink

Albert Zink

Team Member
Christina Wurst

Christina Wurst

Team Member

Projects

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CeltUDAlps

"Celts" up & down the Alps: Origin and Mobility patterns on both sides of the Alps during the Late ...

Duration: - Funding: Provincial P.-L.P. 14. Research ...
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MUMBO

Bioarcheological studies of mummified pre-Columbian remains from Bolivia. Understanding and ...

Duration: - Funding: Provincial P.-L.P. 14. Seal of ...
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PrehistoricAlps

Genomic diversity of prehistoric individuals from the Iceman’s territory in the Eastern Italian Alps

Duration: - Funding: Provincial P.-L.P. 14. Research ...
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MummyLabs

Development and centralization of the laboratory infrastructures of the Institute for Mummy Studies ...

Duration: - Funding: FESR (EU funding / Project)
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Iceman Conservation Project 2.0

Iceman Conservation Project 2.0 Study on the state of conservation and feasibility

Duration: - Funding: Public institutions (Other projects ...
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MUMMY ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Assessment of missing links in atherogenesis via paleogenetic, computed tomography and stable ...

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
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PopGenCT Ancient Egypt

Life and death in ancient Egypt – Computed tomographic and paleogenetic examinations for the ...

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
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ANCIENT PATHOGENS

Molecular analysis of the microbiome and of infectious diseases in ancient human remains - from ...

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
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EvolTB

Illuminating the evolutionary history of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC)

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)

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