Swiss Mummy Project
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The Swiss Mummy Project, based at the University of Zürich, aims to examine the mummies in Swiss archives through means of medical imaging processes and thus offer precise insight into the life and possibly death of these millenia old corpses. The aim of the Swiss Mummy Project (SMP) – a research project based at the University of Zurich and part of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine UZH (https://www.facebook.com/uzh.zem.ch) – is to investigate ancient human mummies of multiple cultural and geographical backgrounds with state-of-the-art scientific methods. This allows gaining insights into the evolution of disease, human variation but also social-cultural aspects.
The SMP has started in the mid-1990’s with a particular focus on mummies from Swiss collections but has now become an international collaborative project with involvements eg in the determination of the cause of death of Pharaoh Tutankhamun; The Neolithic Men from the Ice (“Oetzi”) or a roman-greek mummy.
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