The Field Museum's vast collection of mummies, fossils, pottery and other anthropological gems is riddled with mysteries.

Researchers are hoping to shed light on these and other mysteries with the help of a $225,000 portable X-ray machine that Mikron Digital Imaging is loaning to the museum for three days...

[More], Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, Illinois, USA, December 21, 2004, via TourEgypt.

cf. Field Museum to use X-ray machine to scan priceless specimens, AP via Belleville News Democrat, Illinois, USA, December 21, 2004.