Egypt
University of Chicago Chronicle (William Harms)
Thanks to Rhio for the above link. The story is accompanied by some good photographs.
See the above page for more.
- Reconstructing The Face Of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With photographs/illustrations She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes....
- Exhibition: Meresamun Opens In Chicago This Week
There have been lots of articles about the opening of at The Life of Meresamun at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago this week. The following are the best of the bunch from the last couple of days. CBBC Newsround There's an excellent 7-photograph...
- New Book: The Life Of Meresamun - A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
Oriental Institute This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute’s Museum. The text introduces...
- Exhibition: The Life Of Meresamun
Oriental Institute, Chicago February 10 - October 18, 2009 "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt," focuses on the life of a priestess-musician in Egypt in about the year 800 BC. The exhibit’s centerpiece is the coffin and mummy of...
- Meresamun To Go Under Oi Scanner
Chicago Tribune When doctors at the University of Chicago put the first patient through their new cutting-edge CT scanner, they weren't very concerned about her health. But they did hope to find clues into how she died, 3,000 years ago. Meresamun,...
Egypt
Exhibition: More re The Life of Meresamun
University of Chicago Chronicle (William Harms)
Thanks to Rhio for the above link. The story is accompanied by some good photographs.
In preparation for the new show, a group of faculty, staff and graduate students in Egyptology teamed with Michael Vannier, Professor in Radiology, to undertake a multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing Meresamun’s life.
“A goal of the study and of the exhibit was to make the past less abstract by recreating the life of a specific individual. It is amazing how much information about Meresamun’s life can be mined from scenes on tomb and temple walls and from ancient texts, and how familiar so many aspects of her life seem to us today,” Teeter said.
In 1991, Medical Center radiologists examined the mummy and coffin with CT scans and then again in summer 2008. The mummy had a “call back” last September after the Medical Center installed the newest generation CT scanner. Meresamun was the first subject in Chicago to be studied with the Philips Healthcare Brilliance iCT (“Intelligent CT”) 256-channel scanner, which gave dramatically detailed views.
See the above page for more.
- Reconstructing The Face Of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With photographs/illustrations She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes....
- Exhibition: Meresamun Opens In Chicago This Week
There have been lots of articles about the opening of at The Life of Meresamun at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago this week. The following are the best of the bunch from the last couple of days. CBBC Newsround There's an excellent 7-photograph...
- New Book: The Life Of Meresamun - A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
Oriental Institute This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute’s Museum. The text introduces...
- Exhibition: The Life Of Meresamun
Oriental Institute, Chicago February 10 - October 18, 2009 "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt," focuses on the life of a priestess-musician in Egypt in about the year 800 BC. The exhibit’s centerpiece is the coffin and mummy of...
- Meresamun To Go Under Oi Scanner
Chicago Tribune When doctors at the University of Chicago put the first patient through their new cutting-edge CT scanner, they weren't very concerned about her health. But they did hope to find clues into how she died, 3,000 years ago. Meresamun,...