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Peer Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Cat Mummy
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Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ancient artifacts.
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We have a number of cat mummies in the collection and this was a nice one.
00:04
Basically what we're doing is looking at some items in the University collection
00:08
to make more use of them for teaching.
00:11
So using photogrammetry and other techniques we're able to create virtual versions of objects
00:16
which otherwise you can't handle other than a specialist coming in and looking at them.
00:20
We're really looking at things that would be relevant to students of medicine and maybe archaeology as well
00:25
but also thinking some of the objects in the museum that are rather intriguing and attractive
00:29
that would get people's attention.
00:31
You are able to get that ability to look very closely so it's not just a representation of the object
00:35
it's being able to look at the detail and really understand it. That's been really important.
00:39
The question of course always is what's inside it? Is it actually a cat mummy or not?
00:43
There are cases where what's inside is not what you'd expect.
00:47
We did actually have a crocodile mummy and all that was in it was the crocodile's head.
00:51
There was no body. So we wanted to know so we were able to create this representation of it
00:56
so we got a real sense of the outside and then also we cat scanned it.
01:00
I know it's a bad pun but never mind.
01:02
And we discovered inside that the real cat is a tiny wee kitten much much smaller than the bandages.
01:08
So presumably what went on was that actually at a temple they were selling mummified cats
01:13
for people to give as a gift to the temple.
01:16
And you'd make more money out of selling a large cat than a little one so they've bulked it out.
01:21
I think it does give a bit of an insight into what was going on in a temple of daily life
01:26
and how they were making offerings to the gods in Egypt.
01:29
Photogrammetry is a technique for building 3D models from photographs.
01:34
So basically it consists in taking a lot of photographs around an object
01:38
and then using a clever piece of software to stitch them all together and build a 3D model.
01:44
And the result is very good, the textures are very realistic.
01:49
So anyone can rotate the model, zoom into the object and explore the texture and the shape of the 3D model at any device.
02:01
On the one hand we're thinking of the students in the University of Aberdeen
02:04
and their chance to really make use of the collections.
02:07
I mean it's a wonderful privilege being a student in Aberdeen when you've got the collection
02:10
and we need to make more use of it.
02:12
The other thing of course is we're able to web mount them.
02:14
So they're going to be available to anybody who wants to see these things.
02:17
And there are a number of international projects looking at things like cat mummies
02:21
who are contributing to international scholarship as well as our own teaching.
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