Interview with Bob Brier
Courier Journal
Ancient Egyptians thought that by carefully and ritualistically mummifying their nobility, they would preserve the pharaohs and their families for the paradise of the next life.
Egyptologist Bob Brier has made mummies his life's work. Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y. He has searched the Egyptian desert for mummies more than 100 times.
He's coming to the Louisville Science Center tonight to talk about his and colleague Ronald Wade's 1994 project to mummify a corpse using traditional Egyptian methods. Brier has edified our city's citizens before as a visiting professor at University of Louisville. In 1994, he taught a course on ancient Egyptian architecture for a semester. Brier also stars in the Science Center's current IMAX production, "Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs."
The Bronx-based scholar spoke by phone about Egyptian beliefs, middle-class mummies and lookin' good in the afterlife.
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