The Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Shep-en-Isis.
The Egyptian Mummy in the Abbey Library of St. Gall:
Shep-en-Isis (Schepenese), a mummy from Ancient Egypt, has been in St. Gallen since 1820. The woman, about 30 years of age has the reputation of being the most famous mummy in Switzerland and is kept in the monastery library. The book presents the history of the mummy and the research done and presents for the first time the appearance of the woman from the 26th Dynasty, created using modern forensic methods.
Slightly updated new edition 2023, otherwise identical in content.
Sprache
Maße
Höhe: 19 cm
Breite: 12.5 cm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-7575-3963-4 (9783757539634)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Autor*in
Cícero Moraes is a Brazilian 3D designer, whose work in open source programs like InVesalius, Blender and MakeHuman has become a reference in the field of forensic facial reconstruction in his country.
His best-known work is the facial reconstruction of St. Anthony of Padua, as well as other famous people like Maria Magdalena, Señhor de Sipán, Jesus Christ or Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
During the year 2013 he created 12 panels on facial reconstruction related to human evolution, these were presented in the exhibition "Faces of Evolution" at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and in Curitiba, Brazil. All images displayed on that exhibition were donated to the Wikimedia Commons and came to illustrate posts of important publications online linked to science.
Dr. Michael E. Habicht, studierte Klassische Archäologie und Ägyptologie den Universitäten Zürich und Basel. Er hat sich auf das Neue Reich, die Königsgräber und Unterweltsbücher, sowie auf die Zeit von Echnaton, Nofretete und Tutanchamun spezialisiert. Er hat zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zum Alten Ägypten, Mumien und Paläopathologie publiziert (Lancet, PLoS One, Circulation Research). Er ist Senior Research Fellow an der Flinders University, Adelaide (Australien) und wissenschaftlicher Experte am FAPAB Research Center in Avola (Italien)
Elena Varotto, bioarchaeologist and forensic anthropologist (Research Fellow at Flinders University, Australia, and deputy director of the FAPAB Research Center, Sicily, Italy), is the author of several paleopathological and anthropological publications and leads numerous research projects.
Prof. Dr. Galassi studierte Medizin an den Universitäten Bologna und Utrecht und arbeitet als Palaeopathologe. Zahlreiche Publikationen in High-Impact Fachzeitschriften und Buchpublikationen.
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