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(the “Website”), is operated by HERITAGEDAILYĬookies are small text files that are stored in the web browser that allows HERITAGEDAILY or a third party to recognise you. It was a big surprise that so many baby crocodiles could be detected with high-tech 3D scans and this interactive visualization.”
After all, the mummy had already been scanned. When we started work on this project, we weren’t really expecting any new discoveries. The museum’s curators are excited about this remarkable find: “What was intended as a tool for museum visitors, has yet produced new scientific insights. For instance, crocodiles were offered to the god Sobek. The mummy was given the shape of one large crocodile with various kinds of stuffing: bits of wood, wads of linen, plant stems, and rope.The ancient Egyptians mummified all sorts of animals, usually to pay homage to a particular deity that could manifest in animal form. Another possibility is that no large crocodiles were available at a time when they were needed as offerings to the gods. The museum’s Egyptologists suspect that the crocodiles of different ages were mummified together as a reference to the ancient Egyptian belief in rejuvenation and new life after death. The Swedish company Interspectral, which specializes in high-tech interactive 3D visualizations, has converted the results of the new scan into a spectacular 3D application and thus detected the dozens of baby crocodiles. An earlier CT scan in 1996 had shown that there are two juvenile crocodiles inside a mummy that looks like one large crocodile. During the scanning proces in 2015 (photo: Mike Bink)Ī new scan of the large crocodile mummy was recently performed at the Academic Medical Centre (AMC) in Amsterdam. The amulets placed inside the linen wrappings with the mummies can also be examined in detail and from all sides in 3D. On a large touch screen, they can examine the mummies layer by layer, learning about their age, physical features, and the mummification process. This is an exceptional discovery: there are only a few known crocodile mummies of this kind anywhere in the world. Starting on 18 November, museum visitors can perform an interactive virtual autopsy on the crocodile mummy and the mummy of an Egyptian priest.
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