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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute?
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2 .Mummies. They're the stuff of horror movies and happy archaeologists.
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3 .Now the American Association of Anatomists have turned their attention to mummies,
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4 .they've devoted the entire latest issue of their journal, The Anatomical Record, to the subject.
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5 .Papers in the edition cover topics such as the bog bodies of northern Europe, the intestinal contents of a Korean mummy, a case study for an Egyptian mummy with a prosthetic toe, and a code of ethics for research with ancient human remains.
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6 .Most mummy research is done on actual discovered remains, but some investigations try to reconstruct mummification techniques to figure out just how ancient peoples did it.
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7 .For example, in 1994 researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore attempted to recreate Egyptian mummification, using a donated cadaver.
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8 .In a paper in the new mummy issue, scientists conducted a variety of scans on that cadaver to see if they could figure out the process without asking the researchers who did the 1994 work.
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9 .They determined that the body was male, likely elderly, and probably a modern professional in the "middle or elite social class."
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10 .The authors also describe the incisions and the embalming materials that they could ascertain from the scans.
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11 .They then took the results to the original embalmers, who deemed their findings to be largely correct.
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12 .These kinds of comparisons provide a method to test the accuracy of our evaluation of mummies.
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13 .Because many of the secrets of the ancient Egyptian embalmers are, as has been said, lost in the sands of time.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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