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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] Hughes, Stephen W. and Wright, Richard and Barry, Mark D. (2005) Virtual reconstruction and morphological analysis of the cranium of an ancient Egyptian mummy. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 28(2). pp. 122127 "A mummy of an Egyptian priestess dating from the 22nd dynasty (c. 770 BC), completely enclosed in an anthropoid (human shaped) coffin, was scanned on a CT scanner. An accurate reconstruction of the cranium was generated from 115 × 2 mm CT images using AVS/Express on a SGI computer. Linear measurements were obtained from six orthogonal cranial views and used in a morphometric analysis software package (CRANID). The analyses carried out were both linear and nearest neighbour discriminant analysis. The results show that there is a [b]52.9% probability that the mummy is an Egyptian female[/b]" "The British Museum in London, UK, contains a collection of about 80 Egyptian mummies. One mummy on display in the museum is an Egyptian priestess dating from the 22nd dynasty (c.770 BC). The mummy was first X-rayed by Dawson and Gray1 in the 1960’s. The original report by Gray states that the mummy within the coffin is a “priestess, aged 25-40, in cartonagea, named Tjentmutengebtiub, daughter of Khnonsmes and Mehenmutemhat”. Tjentmutengebtiu was a priestess in the great temple at Karnak, near modern day Luxor on the River Nile. Tjentmutengebtiu arrived in the British Museum (BM), London in 1891." "A computer program has been developed by one of the authors (RW) called CRANID for the morphometric analysis of the skull from 29 measurements. A description of an earlier version of CRANID is given by Wright5. The CRANID database includes measurements of 2,802 individuals from around the world. It is a slightly expanded version of the database originally collected by W.W. Howells6-7. The crania are only those of modern Homo sapiens. Most date from the last 1,000 years. They come from 33 geographical samples, most of which are divided by sex. This results in 64 samples for analysis. Among the new samples in the database are two that are particularly relevant to the analysis of the mummy, namely males and females from the Iron Age site of Lachish in Israel. The output of the program is a series of probabilities that the person is from a particular geographical sample within the database." "Six views of Tjentmutengebtiu’s cranium were generated, as shown in figure 4. In each image the skull was rendered with no perspective so that accurate dimensions could be obtained. 27 measurements of Tjentmutengebtiu’s skull were obtained - two measurements fewer than the 29 normally used in CRANID, but enough to obtain good results. The estimated measurements in mm obtained from the mummy, using the codes defined by Howells6, are shown in table 1." "Linear discriminant analysis identifies the mummy as [b]most likely an Egyptian female, with a probability of 52.9%[/b]. This result, together with less probable contenders, are included in table 2 (samples reported are only those with a probability greater than 1.0%)." "We see that the result by [b]nearest neighbour analysis strengthens the case for an Egyptian identification[/b], while still retaining a preference for female. By chance alone, we must expect only one Egyptian female on average from 53 hits. The fact that there are 10 such nearest neighbours is a very strong result." [IMG]https://www.forumbiodiversity.com/images/upload/egyptology/Tjentmutengebtiu.jpeg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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