Egypt
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- Child Sarcophagus Donated To Bass Museum
Miami Herald An ancient Egyptian child's sarcophagus, a mummy and two Greek urns have been donated to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach by the estate of celebrated First Amendment lawyer Dan Paul, who died in January at 85. The donation joins...
- Meeting Annie
COSI's Lost Egypt (Kate) Our conservator, Mimi LeVeque, and I met at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Monday to finish conservation of the mummy for Lost Egypt, nicknamed “Annie.” The Academy staff was very helpful, and set us up behind their...
- Perth Gallery Competition
Perth Now I am not going to be here on Saturday, so there will be no Saturday Trivia. Here's one that would normally be in that section - it's a rather nice idea, but only of any practical interest if you live in Australia. The Art Gallery of...
- Two Mummified Halves Of A Cat
http://tinyurl.com/3yn64b (ballarat.yourguide.com.au) "The pieces in the puzzle of the mummified Egyptian cat have finally come together - or at least the pieces of the puss have. X-rays have revealed that the two mummified parcels, belonging to the Ballarat...
- Egypt At The Indian Museum
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051128/asp/calcutta/story_5525687.aspDevelopment work at the Indian Museum in Calcutta has included an overhaul of the Egyptian display: "The Egyptian gallery, boasting a 5,000-year-old mummy, had already undergone a facelift...
Egypt
Microprobe makeover for museum's mummy
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15746901%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
"THE CSIRO has teamed up with the National Gallery of Victoria to reconstruct and conserve the last resting place of a teenage Egyptian priestess who died around 700BC.The coffin lid, one of the first major Egyptian antiquities to arrive in Australia, is in a fragile state. About 60 per cent of the wood, and even more of its painted surface, are lost, but the original bright colours on the remaining pieces survive under layers of dirt – gallery officials think. . . . CSIRO scientist Deborah Lau said the agency would use a CSIRO-enhanced microprobe to examine microscopic pieces of paint flakes to check the distribution and identity of the pigment, checking whether the outer layers have changed from the original". See the article for more about the mummy and the technique.
- Child Sarcophagus Donated To Bass Museum
Miami Herald An ancient Egyptian child's sarcophagus, a mummy and two Greek urns have been donated to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach by the estate of celebrated First Amendment lawyer Dan Paul, who died in January at 85. The donation joins...
- Meeting Annie
COSI's Lost Egypt (Kate) Our conservator, Mimi LeVeque, and I met at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Monday to finish conservation of the mummy for Lost Egypt, nicknamed “Annie.” The Academy staff was very helpful, and set us up behind their...
- Perth Gallery Competition
Perth Now I am not going to be here on Saturday, so there will be no Saturday Trivia. Here's one that would normally be in that section - it's a rather nice idea, but only of any practical interest if you live in Australia. The Art Gallery of...
- Two Mummified Halves Of A Cat
http://tinyurl.com/3yn64b (ballarat.yourguide.com.au) "The pieces in the puzzle of the mummified Egyptian cat have finally come together - or at least the pieces of the puss have. X-rays have revealed that the two mummified parcels, belonging to the Ballarat...
- Egypt At The Indian Museum
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051128/asp/calcutta/story_5525687.aspDevelopment work at the Indian Museum in Calcutta has included an overhaul of the Egyptian display: "The Egyptian gallery, boasting a 5,000-year-old mummy, had already undergone a facelift...