Knowing all the smallest details of a mummy is possible thanks to a simple scanner. The French company IMA Solutions has been offering solutions for French and international museums since 2008 so that they can better understand their collections.
“The company has specialized for 15 years in the 3D digitization of heritage through new imaging technologies, both in the medical world and in the industrial world. Our day to day is to explore and study these ancient human remains non-destructively and with the greatest possible precision”, explains Benjamin Moreno, founder and CEO of IMA Solutions and a guest at Tech&Co.
Details without touching the straps
To accomplish this feat, the company uses the same scanners as for humans, and the exam is done in a hospital or clinic. These imaging techniques make it possible to recover the outer casing of the mummy with all its details, from color to drawings, to obtain a complete virtual replica.
“It is done without contact and allows us to keep these mummies in their context: we can visualize the jewels, the amulets, without touching it. We even managed to extract these objects without touching the strips”, specifies Benjamín Moreno.
The objective of this type of analysis is above all to better understand the individuals and recover key information, as described by the director of IMA Solutions: “We will collect two types of information, first anthropobiological such as the cause and age of death, diseases , fractures, etc. And the second aspect will be more for Egyptologists, with embalming and mummification techniques.
Currently, IMA Solutions is working with the British Museum in London and the MUCEM in Marseille to provide added value to the collections on display and more information for the scientific community.
Source: BFM TV
