Egypt
Unravelling two tales of two mummies
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Rachel E. Sheeley
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pal-item.com (Rachel E. Sheeley) Forensic anthropologist Andi Simmons was up to her elbow in the interior cavity of the Wayne County Historical Museum's mummy and relishing every minute of it. Advertisement "It's just a phenomenal chance for us,"...
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- Ancient Mummies In Indiana
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- Wayne County Historical Museum Mummy
http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070414/NEWS01/704140303"There are still mysteries, but Bonnie M. Sampsell has been a super sleuth, helping the Wayne County Historical Museum answer many questions about its mummy and its Egyptian collection....
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http://tinyurl.com/g88xl (pal-item.com)"In a journey of discovery much like opening an Egyptian tomb, work has begun to refurbish the exhibit that surrounds the mummy at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The mummy, bought for the museum by its founder...
Egypt
In the Lab
Unravelling two tales of two mummies
pal-item.com
Rachel E. Sheeley
On a day when children costumed as mummies go trick-or-treating, it's appropriate that new information has been acquired and new conservation efforts made for the only two Egyptian Indiana museum-owned mummies.
Both are in Richmond.
On Sunday, Wayne County Historical Museum volunteer Bonnie Sampsell, guest curator of the museum's Egyptian collection, will share the results of carbon dating on four samples from the mummy there.
Also on Sunday, area residents can tour the Joseph Moore Museum of Natural History at Earlham College to see how recent conservation efforts on the mummy and its coffin there have improved its look and added information about it.
Wayne County Historical Museum
For the past several years, efforts to research the mummy and improve the Egyptian collection have been spearheaded by Sampsell, a former Richmond resident now living in North Carolina.
She has been doing research in Egyptology and geology and traveling to Egypt for many years. She has been published in a number of Egyptology-related publications and made presentations at the Egypt Exploration Society in Cairo, Egypt.
This past year, forensic artist Brenda Robertson Stewart reconstructed the mummy's face using its skull as a basis and several forensic anthropologists examined the mummy's bones. They also removed samples for carbon dating.
4-page story, with two photographs and a video of the virtual reconstruction of one of the mummy's faces by a forensic artist.
- Anthropologists Join In Work Of Reconstructing Mummy's Face
pal-item.com (Rachel E. Sheeley) Forensic anthropologist Andi Simmons was up to her elbow in the interior cavity of the Wayne County Historical Museum's mummy and relishing every minute of it. Advertisement "It's just a phenomenal chance for us,"...
- Wayne County Historical Museum's Mummy Gets Reconstructed By Forensic Artist
pal-item.com The face of the Wayne County Historical Museum's mummy hasn't been seen for thousands of years, but soon area residents will be able to watch as a forensic artist reconstructs its features. Brenda Robertson Stewart is an Indianapolis...
- Ancient Mummies In Indiana
News Link Indiana As of this Thursday, there are currently three "mummies" in Indiana, two of which are in Richmond. One of them rests at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The building itself dates back to 1865 and was founded by Julia Meek Gaar. Gaar...
- Wayne County Historical Museum Mummy
http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070414/NEWS01/704140303"There are still mysteries, but Bonnie M. Sampsell has been a super sleuth, helping the Wayne County Historical Museum answer many questions about its mummy and its Egyptian collection....
- Wayne County Historical Museum Exhibit Expanded
http://tinyurl.com/g88xl (pal-item.com)"In a journey of discovery much like opening an Egyptian tomb, work has begun to refurbish the exhibit that surrounds the mummy at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The mummy, bought for the museum by its founder...