DAVENPORT &#8212 Officials hope modern technology will help unwrap the history of two mummies at the Putnam Museum.

The mummies were carefully removed from their cases and taken to a local hospital where they underwent CT, or computed tomography, scans. Museum officials hope the scans will reveal more about the mummies.

Radiologist Andrew Berkow said he likely won’t be able to determine the exact ages when the mummies died but that their remains could hold other information.

He hopes to determine whether they were adults or children when they died and if their deaths were caused by traumatic injury. He also may be able to determine if they suffered from any diseases or malnutrition.

Berkow said he will study the images from the scans and expects to present his findings with museum officials by the end of this week.

“I think it’s fascinating,” Berkow said. “It really offers the people who need to study these a lot of new insights they never had before.”

One mummy, which remains wrapped, was estimated at 2,000 years old, and its pelvic bone structure shows it is male, Berkow said.

It was donated to the museum in 1896 by Charles Ficke, a prominent resident and former Davenport mayor.

Berkow said the initial scan showed that several of its ribs and its back was broken, probably by rough handling before it arrived at the museum.

The scans of the unwrapped mummy, known as Isis Neferit, didn’t show any noticeable fractures, but indicated it was a young female.

The mummy, estimated at 3,000 years old, was donated to the museum in 1965 by B.J. Palmer, a descendent of the founder of the Palmer College of Chiropractic.