Evisceration and excerebration in the Egyptian mummification tradition

The purpose of this study is to examine the correspondence of primary radiographic data in the IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database to the classical hypotheses tested in, and new hypotheses raised by, two previous synthetic studies of excerebration (Wade et al., 2011) and evisceration (Wade and Nelson, 2013) in Egyptian mummification. The evolution of excerebration and evisceration features are examined with respect to social and political factors influencing their variation over time, space, sex, and social status.