| Title: | 3D facial reconstruction and visualization of ancient Egyptian mumies using spiral CT data |
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| Description: | The 3D facial reconstruction and visualization of ancient Egyptian mummies using spiral CT data website is a report on the work with reconstructing the face of a person living in Egypt more than two thousand years ago using the mummified remains of that person and modern computer technology. The mummified head in question is probably from the Ptolemaic era, around third to fourth century BC. The head has been scanned with Computer Tomography (CT) and the bone structure and what is left of the soft tissues have been reconstructed and modelled in the computer. Then a model for reconstructing the face has been applied that include mathematical modelling of soft tissues with some anthropological input. The site is very simple and not too appealing to the eye but the information, the formulas and the images are very instructive and this is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Egyptology, archaeology and the application of computers in the humanities. |
| Keywords - controlled: | Egypt; Egyptology; archaeology; |
| Keywords - uncontrolled: | computer tomography |
| Type: | Research centres and projects |
| URL: | http://medialab.di.unipi.it/Project/Mummia/SIGGRAPH99/ |
| Classification: |
Humanities > Archaeology > Antiquities / analysis of artifacts Humanities > Archaeology > Egyptology Humanities > Humanities computing |
| Resource creator: | Attardi, Giuseppe (Author), University of Pisa |
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