{"id":518871,"date":"2010-04-07T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-1243333505614416659"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:45:27","slug":"scientists-use-naked-scanners-to-probe-mummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518871","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use &#8216;naked scanners&#8217; to probe mummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/sci-tech\/20100404-26321.html\">The Local<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">German scientists have found a less controversial use for the \u201cnaked body scanners\u201d being rolled out at European  airports \u2013 investigating ancient Egyptian  mummies.<\/p>\n<p>The high-frequency \u201cterahertz\u201d scanners can scan fragile mummies in a way that is less damaging than X-ray scanners, which can destroy precious DNA, the scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Markus Walther and Andrea Bitzer from the Materials Research Centre at the University of Freiburg, have found that the terahertz rays can penetrate the cloth material used to wrap mummies and conveniently probe the dessicated body beneath.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-1243333505614416659?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local German scientists have found a less controversial use for the \u201cnaked body scanners\u201d being rolled out at European airports \u2013 investigating ancient Egyptian mummies. The high-frequency \u201cterahertz\u201d scanners can scan fragile mummies in a way that is less damaging than X-ray scanners, which can destroy precious DNA, the scientists say. Markus Walther and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}