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It is simply an example of the works that the Egyptian Museum of Turin, considered the most important in the world after Cairo, teaches in the exhibition "Invisible Archeology", on the way in which modern scientific methods allow badyze in more detail for millennia, revealing pages of history still veiled.
"Matter is like the CSI of archeology: we retrieve stories from objects and then give them a new meaning as a piece to recompose history," explains Efe Enrico Ferraris, curator of the exhibition, open until January 2020.
Currently, experts are studying mummies with non-invasive methods, unlike in the past, when they were plundered, not wrapped up in botched studies and even pulverized to be ingested as drugs of an effective doubtful.
The exhibition showcases those of Kha and his wife Merit, found in 1906 by the Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in his intact tomb and teeming with a vast funerary trousseau, in the Deir el- Medina, near the Valley of the Kings. on the banks of the Nile.
Thanks to X-rays and computerized axial tomography (CAT) and modern software, they were "virtually unveiled" to reveal the details of this marriage, always wrapped in the linen bands in which they left this world.
From the man, it is known that he was a renowned architect of the XVIIIth Dynasty (1425-1353 BC), as evidenced by the gold necklace that the Pharaoh granted to its most esteemed officials. He died at the age of 60. biliary and inflamed elbow, surely to work in the career.
Under the tissues, it still retains pieces of gold, as well as a stone beetle necklace with an inscription on the back extracted from the Book of the Dead, with which he was tempted to gain the favor of his own. Osiris in the final judgment.
However, we know less by merit. She died young, before her husband, and went to the afterlife with a long wig and a spare in her keychain, as well as a beautiful gold necklace.
In addition, the TAC revealed that none of the viscera had been removed, as was the case during the funeral rites of that era.
But married life is not the only rest rebuilt by science, but the exhibition also teaches what it holds for animals, like a cat that CAT shows skeletally under the bandage and with two unidentified objects in the orbits. .
EThis "invisible archeology" has revealed ancestral scams, such as the case of a huge mummified crocodile sold as "religious merchandising", to serve as an offering to the god Sobek, but which actually contained only one thing. a little lizard.
Another example is the study of the contents of seven alabaster bottles. We can suspect that they contain the 7 sacred oils, but it is certain that they are sealed and that they can not be opened because, in archeology, even this closure is valuable information.
X-rays did not reveal their interior and, as a result, the pots were studied by Oxford experts with x-rays of neutrinos, which certified that they contained a type of oily substance. that we do not know which one. This is another mystery that the coming science must solve.
On the other hand, the new technique allows us to document an excavation with photogrammetry, which scans a site to accurately retain data from different layers of soil before deleting them, as the museum did in the funerary complex of Saqqara.
The role of light in the study of the past is also discussed, because with multispectral examination, which uses the invisible frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, much information can be obtained about the remains and pigments used for them. decorate.
In short, the exhibition is a fervent advocacy for humanism, science and history and ends with a warning from the father of the scientific method, Galileo Galilei.
In a writing, he claimed that to read the "big book" of the universe, it was necessary to understand the mathematical and scientific language in which it is written. Otherwise, looking at the world and the history of its past inhabitants would be "like wandering a dark labyrinth in vain." EFE
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