Mummified daughters of King Tutankhamun: Archeologic and CT studies

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hawass, Zahi ^a   Saleem, Sahar N ^b  

^a Department of State for Antiquities ^*  (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Congenital; CT; Fetus; Mummy

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SKELETON MALFORMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARCHAEOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MUMMIES; NUCLEAR FAMILY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054961906     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6837     Document Type: Article

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