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The International Ancient Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank at the Manchester Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Patricia Lambert-Zazulak
Patricia Lambert-Zazulak*
Affiliation:
Department of Egyptology, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England, rosalie.david@man.ac.uk
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Abstract

The Mummy Tissue Bank at Manchester Museum provides a new resource for Egyptian research. As Dr Lambert-Zazulak explains, new techniques of analysis and the spate of new questions about ancient diseases place this initiative at the front line.

Keywords

Egypttissue bankdiseasemummyManchesterschistosomiasis
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 283 , March 2000 , pp. 44 - 48
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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