Erken Mısır Döneminden Doğal Bir Mumyanın İncelenmesi: "Gebelein Man"

in September 2012 the British museum's most famous natural mummy was taken out of the building for the first time in over a hundred years one of the museum's oldest humans was about to be examined with the newest technology and the results would be a revelation gabbling man is one of a small group six or seven bodies of this kind which are in the British Museum all of these came from the site of gay Blaine in the 1890s Gable a man himself was put on display straightaway and he's always attracted tremendous attention we're about to take Jarrell a man to the criminal hospital to have him CT scanned and we hope to find out a lot more about his past biology his past health how old he was when he died to get a better understanding of what it was like to live and die in pre-dynastic Egypt his preservation is entirely due to natural processes we would call a body like this a natural mummy this is the way scapularis as a dent in it the medial border I'm not sure what's happening here so there be an area maybe to have a closer look claim I won't have to talk to him and I won't have to ask him questions and we won't have to give you injection and also he woke hopefully won't be past Froelich as far as I'm aware pre-dynastic mummies have never been CT scan before is it possible to look at the left yeah the last calculator we found out that most of his bones appear to have just fused the head of his humerus and the head of his femur both which suggests he's just finished growing and he's probably died between the ages of 18 and 21 in the more traditional Egyptian mummy all the internal organs have been taken out during embalming sometimes put back in after they were preserved but you will not ever see the brain because they didn't keep that in the case of gabble a man we would hope to see all these organs preserved just by drying we have teams excavating in Egypt and in northern Sudan every year from Unser time excavating both the town's people lived in and also the places they buried their dead there's a real focus at the moment into trying to investigate what life was like for the ordinary Egyptians this looks structural to me see the way there's that line there so much of the study of ancient Egypt has been about the temples and the tombs of kings and the the gold masks you had on the burials of pharaohs and so on but that really was a very small part of the population maybe maybe less than 1% what about all the ordinary people though the farmers that lived along the Nile what was their health like what was their life like a month later the British Museum team has come to the Natural History Museum to see the first results of the scans of Ghibelline men thanks very much for coming over this this was originally going to be a very quiet little than tete-a-tete sort of scientist assigns a sort of thing but it's sort of grown a little bit which is which is great and very pleased that you could all make it here groundbreaking real-time visualization technology pioneered in Sweden is now installed on a new autopsy table which can be used by the public with if we actually take a slice from this direction now look down inside the body and see a lot of the soft tissue well I think will be a fantastic tool to bring into the galleries are our visitors will be able to explore this mummy who's been known in our galleries for over a century and as we all learn at school the Egyptians took the brain out through the nose as part of that artificial mummification process so this fantastic tool which is like a virtual surgeon's knife taking away the dome of the skull and then the ability to see inside and the preservation of a brain that's what over five thousand years old six thousand six thousand based on the way he's been treated he should date to about 3600 BC maybe 37 so he's old and it's so neat to apply this new technology to something just this old and to get these results to see potentially what he might have eaten on his last day and it's really very exciting but what did happen on Gavilan man's last day he was young and robust so what or who killed him the skeleton and soft tissue now revealed with digital technology provide evidence for how this man died thousands of years ago we did notice that a lot of the ribs have been broken all down kind of a line you can see what the one bit below this area is quite interesting in fact you've got fragments which are still floating in this in soft tissue this shoulder bone had a big indentation in it the rib immediately below also looks like it's been punctured shattered into fragments which have embedded themselves into the muscle tissue and they're still embedded that day the fracture pattern suggests that this was done when the burn was fresh all of which points to him being stabbed in the back it's very likely that what we've we've had on display in the galleries for many many years was the victim of a murder and it's only now that we're truly finding out who this person was me mmm