Our initial findings are written in the captions for each image. How do ours measure up? Well, even though we have a much smaller sample size, we found our stats to be a little bit better – 7 of the 8 that we just x-rayed contain animal remains, and one contains the remains of 3 animals, so the number of animals actually outnumbers the number of mummies in this instance!īelow we’ve posted paired images of the animal mummies and their radiographs. Recently we heard that researchers at the Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester found that about 1/3 of their mummies are “fakes” (and we use this word rather loosely – read the article in the link to find out more). X-radiography is completely non-invasive and is one of the best tools we can use to study these mummies. As you can see in the images below, some of them are incredibly fragile with extensive damage. These mummies were previously in storage and are in the Artifact Lab for much needed treatment and storage upgrades. Last week we x-rayed 8 animal mummies from our collection.