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It is reported in the website of National Geographic that it published a group of picture of crocodile mummy. Direction of Fashion Mistakes Even Smart Jolie Make with tiffany and co According CT, researchers find 30 dead baby crocodiles and a fishhook made of yellow metal. Do You Know These Temptation of tiffany jewellery ? Cameron Diaz Give You the Answer The mask of the mummy is the first point. tiffany jewellery uk are on the Top in the List of Most Wanted Articles in 2009 CT technology used to uncover the mysterious mask of the crocodiles mummy that has a 2,000 years history. The result shows that it is exactly a crocodile. In April, Stanford Medical School scanned two crocodile mummies of which one is 8 inches long, once enclosed by multicolor linen and wearing a mask in this picture.

Two crocodile mummies are still kept in Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California. The administrator, Ellison Lewis, in museum said that the scan showed that at least two Nile crocodile bones mixed together including two skulls, a scapula and a femur. They were bought by philanthropist Phoebe Hearst in Egypt in the end of the 19th century with their origins still remaining mysterious. Recently, researchers have been amending and studying them. The exhibition named [Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past" held in Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology last week displayed to the public the two mummies. That the ancient Egyptians made the bodies of animals into mummies was a very common practice. Anthropology museums said the ancient Egyptians had thousands of crocodile bodies treated with embalmment, and then buried them in a huge tomb as sacrificial offerings of the crocodile god, Sobek.

The sandbag inside the crocodile is the second point. The crocodile mummy in Hearst Museum is still mysterious as it wrapped op the whole dead adult crocodile as well as the dead baby crocodiles. The original package of the mummy had disappeared when it was bought in 1899. Scientists hoped to find the secrets insides the body. Jane Williams, the deputy keeper of Hearst Museum, said that CT scanning revealed some strange white substance (located at lower right of the photo), which might be some stone and was swallowed by crocodiles as a type of ballast to keep balance in water. The museum keeper Lewis pointer out that CT scanning served as a non-intrusive way of research to show the inward structure of the mummy in detail in the same time. 3. The baby crocodile mummies: The opened adult crocodile mummy has length of 5.5 feet (about 1.7 meters in total), is "rid" with more than 30 crocodile pup mummies on the back. The experts said Nile crocodile cubs staying on their parents` backs is a very common moving way.

It`s on the Hearst museum`s blog that the crocodile cub carcasses were originally warped up by linen and then stuck to the adult crocodile carcasses with sticky [mummy balm". The ancient Egyptians embalmers utilized balm for body preservative treatment. The balsam smeared on the body of the crocodiles is the mixture of conifer resin, beeswax and fat which is the same as the material of making human mummies. This finding is obviously rejected the view that "The cost of making animal mummies is lower and the process even more careless". However, similar to tar this material would also experience degradation with time and which would finally lead to the falling off of cub crocodiles several years later. Therefore, the museum workers Lewis and Williams would use a synthetic adhesive to make the cub crocodile mummies cling to it again.

The 4.3D crocodile mummy. A 3D side view showing to the pictures of the young crocodiles on the adult back. In Laboratory at Stanford University, researchers are reschuring two crocodile mummies by scanning them twice, once using the low resolution of clinical scanners. At another time, they used the scanner of high resolution. The later can produce 3D images of objects and present more details. So you can understand nuances. The blog of Stanford University School of Medicine said that crocodile cubs` bone lacking calcium (lower bone mineral density) only can be found in the case of high-resolution scanning.

Fifthly, did crocodiles die as sacrificial offerings? Williams, the keeper of Hearst Museum said that after the high-definition scanning on this crocodile mummy emerging in the picture, the result suggested that before covering up all body parts of the crocodile, it has been overlapped by the stalk of papyrus in order to be strengthened. The Ancient Egyptians make two kinds of crocodiles. One is seen as the avatar of Sobek, the sacred mummy. The other is sacrifice offerings. Crocodiles as sacrifice lived in the lake near the temple, especially in the Eyl Fayoum in Egypt. The visitors of the temple would donate and then the presbyter offered up the embalmed sacrifice-the crocodile mummy, and buried in the name of the donator.

6. Fishhook Found in the Mummy: the Hearst museum administrator Louis revealed that the low resolution scan result of the unveiled mummy still had a great deal of details in hiding as it showed in the scan picture below. By contrast, the high resolution picture above captured some exciting new details. In the belly of crocodiles, researches found the skeletons of its prey and a fishhook. The following researches show that the fishhook is might made by Ancient Egyptian technologies. Fishhook might swallowed by the crocodiles enjoying the last meal. Williams pointed out that the fishhooks were made of bronze because they are not corroded.

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