X-rays and computed tomography (CT ) scans of artifacts and mummies have been conducted for years now, but the unusual insights from these techniques keep coming.
![]() (Courtesy Andrew Wade and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, Division of Anthropology, ANT.006924.004) | ![]() transported their twelfth-century South Indian sculpture of Shiva to the most powerful X-ray tunnel at the Rotterdam customs authority. They found, as they had suspected, that it was cast in solid bronze. (Courtesy Rijksmuseum) | ![]() |