Egypt
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Rare Egyptian Coffin Identified In Torquay Museum
BBC News With photos. A coffin on display at a museum in Devon is a rare 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus, it has emerged. Torquay Museum were unaware of the coffin's significance until an expert from Bristol University identified it as one of...
- Coffin Reveals Secret Past Of Mummified 'royal Boy'
This is South Devon A 2,500-year-old mummified boy, who is a star draw at Devon's oldest museum, has unexpectedly been put in the shade – by the very coffin in which he lies. Ever since he went on show as part of a major revamp at Torquay Museum...
- Travel: Taxi Fares Rise In Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Tony Marson for this item, which I had missed. Cairo expatriates have reported an alarmingly high rate of TSIs — Taxi Shouting Incidents — this week, as they come face to face with the frustration felt by Black ‘n’...
- Volunteer For Mummification
A call has gone out for a terminally ill person to give their body to be mummified in the Egyptian manner for a television show. There is hope that afterward the mummified corpse will be put on display in a museum....
Egypt
"Mummifying Alan" wins TV award
This Is South Devon
A documentary which used the corpse of a recently deceased Westcountry taxi driver to illustrate how ancient Egyptians mummified bodies, has won a BAFTA.
Alan Billis, a taxi driver from Torquay, volunteered for the programme after seeing a newspaper advertisement. He died last year, aged 61, after a battle with lung cancer and his body was mummified using ancient techniques.
It is believed to be the first time in 3,000 years that these ancient mummifying techniques have been revived.
Speaking last year, Mr Billis' widow, Jan, said her husband took part because he wanted to give his grandchildren something extraordinary to remember him by.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Rare Egyptian Coffin Identified In Torquay Museum
BBC News With photos. A coffin on display at a museum in Devon is a rare 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus, it has emerged. Torquay Museum were unaware of the coffin's significance until an expert from Bristol University identified it as one of...
- Coffin Reveals Secret Past Of Mummified 'royal Boy'
This is South Devon A 2,500-year-old mummified boy, who is a star draw at Devon's oldest museum, has unexpectedly been put in the shade – by the very coffin in which he lies. Ever since he went on show as part of a major revamp at Torquay Museum...
- Travel: Taxi Fares Rise In Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Tony Marson for this item, which I had missed. Cairo expatriates have reported an alarmingly high rate of TSIs — Taxi Shouting Incidents — this week, as they come face to face with the frustration felt by Black ‘n’...
- Volunteer For Mummification
A call has gone out for a terminally ill person to give their body to be mummified in the Egyptian manner for a television show. There is hope that afterward the mummified corpse will be put on display in a museum....