Takabuti’s Legacy

The mummy of Takabuti is one of the best known antiquities in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Takabuti was a young woman who lived in Egypt during a tumultuous period, c. 600 BC. Her m...

How did Takabuti die? Although initial studies revealed no definitive cause of death, recent analysis has provided intriguing new data: the presence of a penetrating injury in the ...

An odontological examination was undertaken of Takabuti’s teeth, as such studies can furnish a wealth of information about the deceased person. They can provide direct evidence of ...

The mummified remains of Takabuti were intact from the day she was embalmed until 1835 when she was ‘unrolled’. Therefore her body and hair were protected from the elements by laye...

The period from the development of the Mendelian laws of heredity (1865) and the discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by Friedrich Miescher (1869), to Schrödinger’s characteris...

Achieving and maintaining sustainability as well as creating legacy to be best utilized in future is a challenging and at the same time generous objective for any country and any i...

A LEGACY IN THE ROMAN LAWSummary A notion of a legacy did not exist in the archaic Roman law as a homogenous concept of law and it developed as late as in the pre-classical Roman l...

A detailed study of this mummy and coffin has provided information about the owner’s life and death. On the basis of the stylistic criteria and inscriptions, the coffin has been da...