IMPACT’s Mission

The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database is a large-scale, multi-institutional collaborative research project devoted to the scientific study of mummified remains, and the mummification traditions that produced them, through non-destructive medical imaging technologies.

IMPACT focuses on the body,  made artifact through cultural or natural intervention, in bioarchaeology, epidemiology, and social archaeology studies of  past human societies and their genetic and cultural descendants.

News

Thanks to the 2011 Digging into Data Challenge (SSHRC & NEH) and 50 participating institutions the IMPACT Mummy Database Project is now live!

Recent Additions: Ti-Ameny-Net from the University of Richmond

Upcoming Contributors: Maidstone Museum & University of Alberta

Designed by A.Wade. Last updated August 2016.