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Beaches of Portugal...

Relaxing under the sun, listening to the waves crashing onto the shore and the seagulls screaming for food...

As always betwen ancient Egypt and present day

Exquisite collections, museums monuments and also interesting local food, all in a week...along with the flu and the constraints of travelling, meeting and walking around with fever, muscle spasms and a sore throat...

Western Desert, Egypt

I love the desert....

me and my first book...

At the publisher's stand in the British Museum for the Egyptology Conference, September 2010

Examining ancient Egyptian bodies...

CT scanning, x-ray analysis of bones, teeth and other objects that might have been wrapped with her, macroscopic observation of body, fractures, probabilities for cause and time of death, diet, daily activities she might had, determining age-at-death, studying traces of diseases shown by lesions...

Egyptian mummies

The best technologies available for the living are also available after hours for the dead. Hospitals and medical clinics are always keen on helping scanning the mummies...

Egyptologist

Researching ancient Egypt legacy on medicine and health in those days, daily life at the Egyptians home, religious practices always side-by-side with magic, the gods in which they believed and their application to myths which were relevant to the well-being of people...

Archaeology/Anthropology/Biomedical/Forensic

Studying the human remains from the past makes it possible to reach important conclusions on what affected individuals and compare it to present diseases and afflictions.
Roman osteological remains are key to understand so many civilizational changes both in Europe and in Africa.

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