{"id":14170,"date":"2021-01-11T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/electron-paramagnetic-resonance-a-non-destructive-method-for-analyzing-ancient-artifacts\/"},"modified":"2021-01-11T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:16:00","slug":"electron-paramagnetic-resonance-a-non-destructive-method-for-analyzing-ancient-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=14170","title":{"rendered":"Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: A Non-destructive Method for Analyzing Ancient Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Egyptian mummies have many tales to tell, but unlocking their secrets without destroying delicate remains is challenging. Now, researchers reporting in ACS\u2019 Analytical Chemistry have found a non-destructive way to analyze bitumen \u2014 the compound that gives mummies their dark color \u2014 in Ancient Egyptian embalming materials. The method provides clues to the bitumen\u2019s geographic origin and, in one experiment, revealed that a mummy in a French museum could have been partially restored, likely by collecto&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Egyptian mummies have many tales to tell, but unlocking their secrets without destroying delicate remains is challenging. Now, researchers reporting in ACS\u2019 Analytical Chemistry have found a non-destructive way to analyze bitumen \u2014 the compound that gives mummies their dark color \u2014 in Ancient Egyptian embalming materials. The method provides clues to the bitumen\u2019s geographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}