Evidences of the guanche mummy of the National Archaeological Museum through the computed tomography.

Resumen

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, the Quirónsalud Universrty Hospital of Madrid and the company Story Producciones signed in 2016 an agreement to carry out a study using Computed Tomography Scan (CT scan) on four mummies of the National Archaeological Museum: three of them were Egyptian mummies and the other was a ''guanche" mummy. The "guanche" mummy of the National Archaeological Museum is the best preserved of the mummies of its kind. We knew its outer appearance, but we did not know what it hid inside. Using a CT Scan of the latest generation, we have been able to access its interior and ít has allowed us to analyze the mummy in detail, through high-resolution images and and it has been very useful in clarifying threedimensional reconstructions. The hypotheses about whether the "Guanche" practiced evisceration or not. are contradictory. Thanks to the CT sean, we have verified that, in effect, this mummy had not been eviscerated. Undoubtedly, these findings help us to better understand what the way of life, customs and mummification processes of the Guanche population could may have been like.