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Computer images of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy are pictured recently in Mount View, California. Computer experts in US technology mecca Silicon Valley have used 21st century science to create three-dimensional imagery of the mummified girl kept at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose since about 1930. Museum workers to dubbed the girl mummy "Sherit," which they said is ancient Egyption for "little one." Sherit was close to five years old when she died, and the absence of signs of injury suggests she succumbed to dysentary or another illness common among children in Nile Valley at the time, researchers said. The scans mined 35 times more information than those done on the famed King Tutankhamen mummy and enabled imaging experts to picture her in three dimensions, researchers said.
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