Sarah Wisseman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Sarah Wisseman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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A team of medical experts and researchers present new findings on an ancient mummy in the collection of the University of Illinois Spurlock Museum. Sarah Wisseman, director of the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey at Illinois and author of "The Virtual Mummy," led the effort to study the mummy without removing its shroud.

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