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Mummies share their secrets  Technology helps scientists
understand how the dead once lived  2:52pm, October 26, 2011
mummy CT scans at the Field Museum in Chicago  CT scans at the
Field Museum in Chicago helped confirm the age and sex of seven
Egyptian and three Peruvian mummies. A scan of this Egyptian
mummy revealed it to be a woman about 40 years old.  The Field
Museum, 2011  One afternoon, Ron Beckett, a professor at
Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., left his lab, taking
some research home with him. The university labs were being
remodeled, and security was a question. Carefully assisting his
elderly passenger into the back seat, Beckett buckled her in for
safety. As the two traveled to Beckett’s home, the passenger sat
very still and didn’t make conversation — because she’s a
1,000-year-old Peruvian mummy!  Mummies are alive with
information, and scientists like Beckett are helping to unlock
what these time travelers have to say. Cuttin