On the Potential of THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy to Identify Typical Ancient Egyptian Embalming Materials

E. Stübling; L. Öhrström; P. Eppenberger; M. Habicht; F. Rühli; M. Koch

doi:10.1007/s10762-019-00604-1

On the Potential of THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy to Identify Typical Ancient Egyptian Embalming Materials

E. Stübling, L. Öhrström, P. Eppenberger, M. Habicht, F. Rühli, M. Koch

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Abstract

We investigated the dielectric properties of typical embalming materials used in ancient Egypt in the THz frequency range. In addition, we evaluated the potential to identify these materials based on a principal component analysis of the spectroscopic data. Based on this, we estimated the composition of two unknown ancient bandages of mummified bodies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	763-769
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves
Volume	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-019-00604-1
Publication status	Published - 11 Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Embalming materials
Identification potential
Principal component analysis
THz database
THz spectroscopy

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