European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday june 29, 1987 mummies reveal pasts in cat scans Boston a Basa a 3,000-year-old egyptian was just another Mummy in a museum until saturday when researchers used 2qln-Ccnt iry technology to probe the body inside the layers of Linen and resin with a cat scan. Two radiologists and an Egypt Logist from Boston s museum of Fine arts watched As the figure inside a crude wooden coffin glided under an enormous Gray machine to receive a full body scan saturday. Within minute they moved to an adjoining room where detailed three dimensional images of the mum my s body and Skeleton flashed on a Small video screen see he had a fracture on his right forearm said or. Myron Marx pointing excitedly at some of the pictures. It s the kind of injury you can gel that discovery was just one of hundreds made in the four years that Marx has directed a joint project of Brigham and women s Hospital and the Boston museum of Fine arts to examine ancient mummies using 20th-Century medical technology. Since my began the project in Boston he has moved to the staff of the Pacific presbyterian medical Center in san Francisco. Fifteen mummies Between 3,000 and 4,500 Yean old and 120 mummified animals have been a Rayed and Given computerized Axial tomography scans since the project began in 198. Cat scans Combine a Ray pictures taken on Many separate planes to form a com plete image. Discoveries made As a result of he project Benefit both Medicine and anthropology Mara said. By diagnosing diseases of the Era doctors can better Unden and their link to modern illness Marx about the mummies As people shed Light on history. They re basically Lime capsules from he ancient past said Man and the whole Point of this project to examine them without touching or disturbing the cat scans will help determine the age at deals and medical condition of each Mummy at Well a document the mummification process Marx Laid. The procedure enables researchers to pinpoint More details than conventional a rays he Laid. In one Mummy calcined arteries were found thai Are Simitar to those of modern victim of severe diabetes. The mummies examined saturday were both Youngr fro i. The Jeffi f of i Ilieff an or. Myron in left i a professor b. Leonard Holman examine Basa after the Mummy received i cat Cal. And Strong said sue Hancy d auria an egyptology Sofrom the museum of Fine arts who is overseeing the project. Little was known about the mummies before they were brought to the Hospital d auria said. The Only clues to the mummies As individuals Lay in the inscriptions on their coffins. Basa he male Mummy examined saturday was a pries d auria said. On sunday takes he last Mummy scheduled to undergo the procedure will be a Rayed. Takes lived 4,500 years ago and according to he inscription other coffin was a Singer in a Temple. Her husband was � Barber. The mummies examined by Man d auria and us Vietnam deserter plans to Send for family remain in Vermont West Rutland it. Fuji Vietnam War de Serter Douglas Beane Back in his native state after 17 years on the run in Australia will Send for his wife and children and remain in Vermont indefinitely it was disclosed saturday. Beane risked a possible court martial by returning to the United slates to visit his ill father but he Marine corps spared him a military trial and released him. Beane said he intends to remain in Vermont for the foreseeable future and will Send for his wife and two children. I Don t know if i m going Back Beane told he Burlington free press. We re just going to s a Here for a while. I just want to spend some time with my he said his family s airfare will be paid by Singer is Sullivan a new York Agency handling the Book an movie rights to Bane s life Story. Beane said he is worried about How his wife will Deal with the Vermont Winter although he is confident his children will love it. Beane attracted International attention last Decem Ber when he walked Inlo the . Consulate in Canberra and asked for a visa so he could visit his parents Christene and Donald Beane. Beane a Cook fled Vietnam in 1970 after he was old he would be charged with Black marketing and with threatening the life of the Marine who informed on him bean slipped out of Vietnam and headed for austra Lia where he became part of a counterculture move men and fathered nine children by four women. It s really unbelievable that one Man could have Romany adventures said Joseph Singer Beane s agent. The fact that it s Hue makes it All the 2 die in crash of Vintage plane Manistee Mich. Up investigators questioned witnesses saturday to determine Why a world War in Era warplane crashed in Northern Michigan killing a businessman and one of his employees. State police said Pilot Wayne Meylan 41, of Elk Horn neb., and his passenger Collon he 33, of Omaha neb., were killed instantly late Friday afternoon when m Eylan s p-51d Mustang crashed near Alake Michigan Campground. Median was president of Meylan enterprises of Ralston neb., an Indus i rial cleaning firm that also operates in Oklahoma and Wyoming. Colion was a employee officials said. Sgt. Jack Thomas of the stale police said the two Cater aircraft crashed shortly after 5 . Friday near the Federal Forest Campground in Northwestern Mason county about is Miles Southwest of Manistee. The cause of the crash was no known one of the witnesses was Moylan s son. Who was flying another aircraft in he area at the time state police said. Meylan was an Alt America guard for the University ofic Braskin 1966 and 1967. He was named twice to All big eight learns and played for Cleveland and Minnesota in the nil from 1968-1970. He was inducted Inlo inc Nebraska sports Hall of farm in 1979. Bob Lamotte vice president of Meylan enterprises said Meylan and Collon apparently were headed for Northwest lower Michigan to do some fishing after returning from an air show in Canada. Perv Ising radiologist and Harvard professor b. Leon Ard hol Irun died Between he Ages of 9 and their mid is they said. Some like Basa and takes were donated o the museum in the Laic Boos from private collections. Others Ike Pospy synch one of the two mummies examined saturday lived during the first intermediate period around 2,000 . When he mummification process was just evolving. He was excavated in his coffin during an expedition to Egypt by staffers of he museum of Fine arts in 1923. Many of the mummies who were examined at he Hospital will be displayed along with the results of their cat scans and a rays at a special exhibit at the museum of Fine arts in the fall of 1988, stateside Roundup of rattlesnakes bushwhacked by officials Warden Wash. Up a fourth of july Lions club Rattlesnake Roundup has been cancelled by the state game department which withdrew its permission because the Organiza Tion is not a non profit group. The event had drawn the Wrath of Environ mentalists concerned that depiction of the rattlers in Northeast Washington would upset the ecological balance allowing for increased populations of rats and mice. The came department which gave verbal approval for he Roundup on thursday withdrew its permission Friday after discovering the Lions club was not registered at a non profit organization As required by Sta e Law for fund raising event that would affect he environment birthrate of indians Alaska natives increases Washington up while the nation s general birthrate slowed from 1970 to 1984, american Indian and Alaska native births climbed sharply a government report says. Final data from the National censer for health statistics showed that Indian births increased 7 percent Between 1970 and 1975. While the birthrate for the general population declined 16 percent. Between 1975 and 19so, Indian births Rose 34 percent and Between 1980 and i9s4 they Rose about 13 percent. During the same periods the general rate Rose 14.9 percent and 1.6 percent. The birth rate for Alaska natives including eskimos and aleuts also outpaced the general birth Rale rising 6 percent from 1970 to 1975, 25 percent from 1975 to 1980 and 20 percent from 1
