Egypt
Suburban Chicago News (Denise Crosby)
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- 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...
- Egyptians And Modern History
The Daily News, Egypt (Dina Abdel-Mageed) This short but fascinating article entitled "Is Egypt rewriting its history?" the author looks at the revival of interest amongst today's Egyptians about their pre-1952 revolution past. The Arabic media has...
- More Re Return Of Mummy To Stonyhurst College, Yorks, Uk
Lancashire Telegraph A 2,500-YEAR-OLD Egyptian mummy has been returned to Stonyhurst College after more than 30 years. The remains of the unidentified young boy, aged five or six, left the Clitheroe Catholic boarding school in the 1970s for testing at...
- More Re El Hibeh Tell
physorg.com The El Hibeh tell — a mound of ancient human architecture, artifacts and debris — is so rich with the remnants of human life in central Egypt that shards of pottery literally crunch under a visitor’s feet. Beads, jug handles, and even...
Egypt
It's always tough parting with Mummy
Suburban Chicago News (Denise Crosby)
High School Mummy -- not the musical -- has moved from Naperville Central to North.
And history teacher Jim Galanis admits -- with a chuckle of course -- he's wound a little tight over this temporary transfer of "Butch," Central's beloved 2,000-year-old Egyptian artifact.
"We just hope the crate doesn't come back empty," as part of some prank ... "or that she doesn't come back dressed in orange and blue," says Galanis of Friday's move that was necessary because of renovations that won't be completed until fall.
Describing this teacher's relationship with Butch -- donated to the school by a doctor in the '40s, then rediscovered in a storage area in 1975 -- as close would be an understatement. He and colleague Tom Henneberry have been her protector, advocate, lab partners, even chauffeur for more than two decades.
In addition to turning her into a legendary part of the curriculum in Central's history department, these two teachers helped Butch morph into a television star when National Geographic Channel featured her in a segment called "High School Mummy" in its "Mummy Road Show" series that aired in 2002.
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- 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...
- Egyptians And Modern History
The Daily News, Egypt (Dina Abdel-Mageed) This short but fascinating article entitled "Is Egypt rewriting its history?" the author looks at the revival of interest amongst today's Egyptians about their pre-1952 revolution past. The Arabic media has...
- More Re Return Of Mummy To Stonyhurst College, Yorks, Uk
Lancashire Telegraph A 2,500-YEAR-OLD Egyptian mummy has been returned to Stonyhurst College after more than 30 years. The remains of the unidentified young boy, aged five or six, left the Clitheroe Catholic boarding school in the 1970s for testing at...
- More Re El Hibeh Tell
physorg.com The El Hibeh tell — a mound of ancient human architecture, artifacts and debris — is so rich with the remnants of human life in central Egypt that shards of pottery literally crunch under a visitor’s feet. Beads, jug handles, and even...