Monge Janet M, Rühli Frank
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Swiss Mummy Project, Centre for Evolutionary Medicine, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2015 Jun;298(6):935-40. doi: 10.1002/ar.23129.
There is almost a universal fascination with prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic human remains that preserve the soft tissues (nonskeletal) of the body (general definition of a mummy). While most people within the general public engage with mummies as part of a museum exhibit process, many scientists have taken that fascination much further. Starting as a general fascination with mummification, the scientific process involved in the study of mummies began in earnest in the late 18th Century AD. This issue of the Anatomical Record was conceived and formulated to bring together a series of researchers to highlight their most groundbreaking research on the scientific advances that surround the 21st Century AD study of these preserved biological beings including an illumination of the cultural processes that purposefully or inadvertently are preserved either within their tissues or are present within the context (archaeological) in which they are found (excavated). Twenty-six research articles are presented in this volume on a variety of topics all related to the rich transdisciplinary fields that are now directing their research efforts to the state-of-the art analysis of human mummified remains.
对于保存了人体软组织（非骨骼部分）的史前、原史和历史时期人类遗骸（木乃伊的一般定义），人们几乎普遍着迷。虽然大多数普通民众是在博物馆展览过程中接触木乃伊，但许多科学家对其的痴迷程度更深。从对木乃伊化的普遍着迷开始，对木乃伊研究的科学进程在公元18世纪后期正式启动。本期《解剖学记录》的构思和策划旨在汇聚一系列研究人员，以突出他们在围绕公元21世纪对这些保存下来的生物进行研究的科学进展方面最具开创性的研究，包括阐明有意或无意保存在其组织内或存在于发现（挖掘）它们的背景（考古学）中的文化过程。本卷共发表了26篇研究文章，涉及各种主题，所有这些主题都与丰富的跨学科领域相关，这些领域目前正将研究工作导向对人类木乃伊遗骸的前沿分析。
