Egypt
The Brown Daily Herald (Anna Andreeva)
- Mummy Scan Database To Launch In The Summer
IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world. The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project (impactdb.uwo.ca) at the University of Western...
- Book Review: Mummies In Nineteenth Century America
Thanks to Cassandra Vivian for forwarding this to me. Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts S. J. Wolfe with Robert Singerman M cFarland Publishing. 2009 63 photos ISBN 978-0-7864-3941-6 www.mcfarlandpub.com Orders only...
- The Mystery Of The Mummy Paper
Seattle pi Another version of this story appeared a few weeks ago. Reality or urban legend: were the wrappings of ancient Egyptian corpses recycled and pulped to create so-called "mummy paper?" Archaeologists and other scholars have long debated the veracity...
- Book Review: Mummies In 19th-century America
Fortrean Times (Christine Quigley) Mummies in 19th-Century America Author: SJ Wolfe, with Robert Singerman Publisher: McFarland, 2009 A intriguing study of a commodity used as display, currency and medicine - and faked using swaddled dead tramps... What...
- Maine Mills Used Mummy Wrappings To Create Paper
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/2939093.shtml"Researcher S.J. Wolfe, senior archivist for the American Antiquarian Society, said in the early 1850s adventurer and chemist Isaiah Deck suggested a bizarre solution to the lack of rags then...
Egypt
In the lab: Mummy buff unwraps secrets at Hay
The Brown Daily Herald (Anna Andreeva)
Anthropodermic books are not all the Hay has to offer by way of eccentric collection pieces, as independent researcher S.J. Wolfe found. Nestled among the John Hay Library’s rare book collections is an 1859 broadside printed on paper made of processed mummy wrappings.
Wolfe, a senior cataloguer and serials specialist at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., is currently working on a comprehensive database of all the Egyptian mummies and mummy parts that remain in the U.S. The database has around 1,249 entries, Wolfe said, and represents about 550 individuals.
Each entry in the database covers 25 categories, including the sex of the mummy, when it was first imported into the U.S. and the museum in which it is currently located. While the database is not currently available online, Wolfe said she hopes to post the information on the Web.
Ten years ago, Wolfe began collecting information on Egyptian mummies imported to the U.S. after coming across references to 19th-century American paper allegedly made of mummy wrappings.
- Mummy Scan Database To Launch In The Summer
IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world. The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project (impactdb.uwo.ca) at the University of Western...
- Book Review: Mummies In Nineteenth Century America
Thanks to Cassandra Vivian for forwarding this to me. Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts S. J. Wolfe with Robert Singerman M cFarland Publishing. 2009 63 photos ISBN 978-0-7864-3941-6 www.mcfarlandpub.com Orders only...
- The Mystery Of The Mummy Paper
Seattle pi Another version of this story appeared a few weeks ago. Reality or urban legend: were the wrappings of ancient Egyptian corpses recycled and pulped to create so-called "mummy paper?" Archaeologists and other scholars have long debated the veracity...
- Book Review: Mummies In 19th-century America
Fortrean Times (Christine Quigley) Mummies in 19th-Century America Author: SJ Wolfe, with Robert Singerman Publisher: McFarland, 2009 A intriguing study of a commodity used as display, currency and medicine - and faked using swaddled dead tramps... What...
- Maine Mills Used Mummy Wrappings To Create Paper
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/2939093.shtml"Researcher S.J. Wolfe, senior archivist for the American Antiquarian Society, said in the early 1850s adventurer and chemist Isaiah Deck suggested a bizarre solution to the lack of rags then...