Mummy: Results of Interdisciplinary Examination of the Egyptian Mummy of Aset-iri-khet-es from the Archaeological Museum in Cracow [Paperback]

The present volume contains a collection of articles written by specialists from various fields involved in research conducted on the mummy of a priestess of Isis named Aset-iri-khet-es,1 who lived in Egypt during the Ptolemaic period (late 4th - 1st centuries B.C.).Krzysztof Babraj, Hanna Szymanska Introduction Krzysztof Babraj The ethics of research on mummified human remains Hanna Szymanska Tadeusz Smolenski. Excavations at el-Gamhud Andrzej Niwinski Coffin, cartonnage and mummy of Aset-iri-khet-es in the light of Egyptological research Katarzyna Tempczyk The mummy's wrappings Andrzej Urbanik Comprehensive radiological examination Maria Kaczmarek Reconstruction of lifelike appearance Matgorzata Ktys, Teresa Lech, Janina Zieba-Palus, Jozefa Biafka A chemical and physicochemical investigations Matgorzata Ktys, Barbara Opolska-Bogusz, Barbara Prochnicka Aserological and histological study Agnieszka Sutkowska Molecular analysis of ancient DNA isolated from mummy's tissues Tomasz Grzybowski, Jakub Czarny, Marcin Wozniak, Danuta Miscicka-Sliwka Sequencing of mtDNA region V from a 2.300 years old Egyptian mummy Maria Lityriska-Zajac Macroscopic plant remains from the sarcophagus Birgit Gerisch Archaoentomologische Untersuchungen an Mumien, Grabbeigaben und Grabern des alten Agypten unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Mumie Aset-iri-khet-es Marian Paciorek Conservation of a wooden painted coffin from Ancient Egypt in the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Cracow Barbara Aleksiejew-Wantuch Conservation of a cartonnage piece of the mummy of Aset-iri-khet-es Joanna Trabska, Barbara Trybalska Aset-iri-khet-es' mummy mask: pigments, their preparation and corrosion phenomena. Gomaa Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel-Maksoud Conservation of Egyptian mummies. Part I: Experimental study on the Ancient Egyptian technique of mummification Gomaa Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel-Maksoud Conservation of Egyptian mummies. Part II: Survey study for the highest occurrence of microorganisms on Egyptianlã2