Mummified remains from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia - Reviewing peculiarities and limitations of human and non-human radiological identification and analysis in mummified remains.
Forensic protocols and medico-legal techniques are increasingly being employed in investigations of museological material. The final findings of such investigations may reveal interesting facts on historical figures, customs and habits, as well as provide meaningful data for forensic use. Herein we present a case review where forensic experts were requested to identify taxonomic affinities, stage of preservation and provide skeletal analysis of mummified non-human archaeological remains, and verify whether two mummified hands are human or not. The manuscript offers a short review on the process and particularities of radiological species identification, the impact of post-mortem changes in the analysis and imaging of mummified remains as well as the macroscopical interpretation of trauma, pathology and authenticity in mummified remains, which can all turn useful when dealing with forensic cases.
Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Braće Branchetta 20, Rijeka, Croatia. Electronic address: anja.petaros@yahoo.com.
Anja
A
Petaros
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: ivor.jankovic@inantro.hr.
Ivor
I
Janković
Research Unit of Paleoradiology and Allied Sciences, AOUTS Trieste, Italy. Electronic address: fabio.cavalli@aots.sanita.fvg.it.
Fabio
F
Cavalli
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: gordana.augustan@gmail.com.
Gordana
G
Ivanac
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: boris.brkljacic@zg.htnet.hr.
Boris
B
Brkljačić
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia; Department of Social Medicine and Organization of Health Care, Zagreb University, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: mislav.cavka@yahoo.com.
Mislav
M
Čavka
D000489:Alligators and Crocodiles; D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002415:Cats; D017523:Croatia; D018732:Forensic Anthropology; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography; D009106:Mummies; D009144:Museums; D013045:Species Specificity
Egypt; Forensic anthropology; Mummy; Paleoradiology; Species identification; Taphonomy