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Chicago artist Joshua Harker used the traditional forensic method in which layers of fat and muscle are built up upon the skull employing the
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during a visit to Egypt and has remained unopened. This mummy is unusual in that it has been CT scanned three times with different generations of imaging technology: first in 1991 using a GE single-slice helical scanner, next in July 2008 with a 64-slice
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