This Pas-de-Calais hospital welcomed a mummy from the Louvre to give it a CT scan

The Lens hospital (Pas-de-Calais) received a rather special patient on Monday September 23: a 2,900-year-old mummy from the collection of the Louvre museum in Paris. She underwent a scan which provided a lot of information to the specialists who are studying her.

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A strange patient was admitted to the Lens hospital center (Pas-de-Calais) on Monday September 23, 2024. The medical teams gave Neha a CT scan… a 2,900-year-old mummy! As explained News Pas-de-Calais it is part of the collection of the Louvre Museum and is kept at the Liévin conservation center.

“The brain has been removed”

On its Facebook account, the hospital indicates that “the examination made it possible to answer certain questions that the specialists were asking”. For example, he demonstrated that “the brain was removed and the rib cage and mouth were filled”. All this information was transmitted to specialists at the Louvre conservation center, who will thus be able to continue studying Neha.

This is not the first scan carried out on a mummy in France. A few weeks earlier, on September 6, it was Séramon who had the right. Preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Besançon (Doubs), this 3,000-year-old mummy was examined at the civil hospices of Lyon (Rhône), reports France 3 Burgundy-Franche-Comté . She had already had a scanner in 2007, but the machine used at the time was much less efficient.