Egypt
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- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Mummy Reunited With Mask
The Republic The mummy Nefrina came face to face with her funeral mask Wednesday, as the likeness that had been buried with her — but was separated the past 82 years — was returned to her in the Reading Public Museum. Museum Director John Graydon...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Quest For The Mummy Of Hatshepsut
http://guardians.net/hawass/articles/quest_for_the_mummy_of_hatshepsut.htmThanks very much to Jen Mason for the following artilce. On Zahi Hawass's own website, Hawass argues in favour of a mummy located in the Cairo Museum being that of Hatshepsut....
- A Pharaoh's Coffin?
Apparently Dr. Hawass said of this coffin that it belonged to a king of the twenty first dynasty though clearly this is not a coffin of a pharaoh and I have some doubt Dr. Hawass would have said that. The coffin was confiscated in Florida and is about...
Egypt
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 in 2007, Psamtek – the only human mummy on public display in the county – has captured the imagination of thousands of curious visitors.
But now his own mummy-shaped coffin has stolen the limelight, after museum officials were told the ornate near-4ft-long object (1.2m) is nearly 1,000 years older than the body it contains.
Further investigation reveals the coffin may have been made for a junior member of royalty more than a century before the time of the famous boy king Tutankhamun.
Museum curator Barry Chandler said: "It's an extraordinary discovery and means that the coffin is now the most spectacular exhibit in our entire collection.
"It's extremely rare – even the British Museum doesn't have one quite like it."
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Mummy Reunited With Mask
The Republic The mummy Nefrina came face to face with her funeral mask Wednesday, as the likeness that had been buried with her — but was separated the past 82 years — was returned to her in the Reading Public Museum. Museum Director John Graydon...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Quest For The Mummy Of Hatshepsut
http://guardians.net/hawass/articles/quest_for_the_mummy_of_hatshepsut.htmThanks very much to Jen Mason for the following artilce. On Zahi Hawass's own website, Hawass argues in favour of a mummy located in the Cairo Museum being that of Hatshepsut....
- A Pharaoh's Coffin?
Apparently Dr. Hawass said of this coffin that it belonged to a king of the twenty first dynasty though clearly this is not a coffin of a pharaoh and I have some doubt Dr. Hawass would have said that. The coffin was confiscated in Florida and is about...