Egypt
The Star
With Video: "Gayle Gibson, a teacher and Egyptologist at the ROM, takes us behind the scenes and reveals fascinating details of two little mummies in their collection."
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Egypt
Exhibition: Mummy baby to come out of ROM closet
The Star
With Video: "Gayle Gibson, a teacher and Egyptologist at the ROM, takes us behind the scenes and reveals fascinating details of two little mummies in their collection."
A mummified Egyptian baby, which one curator thought would never be displayed in her lifetime, is part of a new collection debuting at the museum this month, believe it or not.
The six-month-old infant, who hasn’t been out for public viewing at the Royal Ontario Museum since the 1950s, was one of two recently plucked from storage for a History Television episode entitled “Museum Secrets.”
“I doubt these mummies will go back on display in my lifetime,” ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson told a Star reporter who was writing about the television show, which aired last month.
Researchers aren’t sure how the infants originally came to Toronto, but Gibson said they likely arrived here with a tourist or researcher in the late 1800s, carted back as a souvenir or for study.
The 2000-year-old baby, who is slightly flattened and elongated, will be part of this month’s Out of the Vault series, which will be showcased in Canada Court on level one of the ROM from Feb. 5 to Feb. 21.
- Mosi Mummy Exhibit Unwraps Thousands Of Years Of Mysteries (u.s.)
Tampa Bay Online (Cloe Cabrera) The cherubic-faced baby sits frozen in eternal repose, arms crossed on its knees, trimmed hair, tiny fingernails and a small amulet around its neck. Researchers don't know the infant's gender, but they believe the...
- Scan Reveals Crocodile Mummy Contents
Copenhagen Post With photos. Scan reveals surprise content of museum’s crocodile mummy The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum made an exciting find this week. The museum, in conjunction with the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, scanned...
- 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...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- Baby Mummies At The Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum has always had a place in my heart as one of my favorite haunts in the years I lived in Toronto. Another is the Gardiner Museum across the street from the ROM. Here is a video featuring ROM egyptologist Gayle Gibson on a pair...