Egypt
- Mummufied Kitten Bred For Purpose
Fox News (Jennifer Welsh) Two thousand years ago, an Egyptian purchased a mummified kitten from a breeder, to offer as a sacrifice to the goddess Bastet, new research suggests. Between about 332 B.C. and 30 B.C. in Egypt, cats were bred near temples...
- 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...
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- A Trade Older Than The Pyramids
http://www.egypt.cd2.com/html/trading_artefacts.htmlA fascinating and revealing paper, written by Geoffrey Tassie of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO). I have published the entire paper on the above web page, and it will soon be added...
Egypt
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 used as a key ingredient to make paper. . . . Wolfe, who noted animals were also mummified in Egypt, said Deck estimated the United States' needs for cloth for paper-making could be met for 14 years by using the wrappings from millions of mummies. Stranger still, mills actually did so, including some right in Gardiner, between 1860 and 1900."
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- Mummufied Kitten Bred For Purpose
Fox News (Jennifer Welsh) Two thousand years ago, an Egyptian purchased a mummified kitten from a breeder, to offer as a sacrifice to the goddess Bastet, new research suggests. Between about 332 B.C. and 30 B.C. in Egypt, cats were bred near temples...
- 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...
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- A Trade Older Than The Pyramids
http://www.egypt.cd2.com/html/trading_artefacts.htmlA fascinating and revealing paper, written by Geoffrey Tassie of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO). I have published the entire paper on the above web page, and it will soon be added...