Egypt
A mummy acquired in 1925 by the Science Museum of Minnesota is on it's way to Children's hospital for it's date with a CT scanner. The mummy is known to have been properly mummified with the internal organs removed, except the heart and is believed to be eighteenth dynasty.
Photo: Courtesy of the Science Museum of Minnesota
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Halloween Party To Welcome 'child Mummy'
Courier Press The Evansville Museum will throw a Halloween welcome party Saturday for its newest guest, a 2,000-year-old baby mummy. A family public opening for the new show, "The Child Mummy," will run from noon to 2 p.m. in the museum, where the exhibition...
- Exhibition: More Re Cosi Lost Egypt
Columbus Dispatch (Michele Lemmon) At the end of the COSI Columbus exhibit "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science," children might chatter about a 2,200-year-old human mummy or a tiny animal mummy. Kate Storm, director of experience development,...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- Analysis Of Mummy Tchaenhotep.
http://tinyurl.com/bjmms The analysis of mummy of Tchaenhotep have been released. The mummy, which was removed from the Valley of the Kings in 1903, had been damaged during a 1937 flood in Lousville, when a piano landed on the mummy, and damaged the leg...
Egypt
Minnesota's Mummy
Photo: Courtesy of the Science Museum of Minnesota
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Halloween Party To Welcome 'child Mummy'
Courier Press The Evansville Museum will throw a Halloween welcome party Saturday for its newest guest, a 2,000-year-old baby mummy. A family public opening for the new show, "The Child Mummy," will run from noon to 2 p.m. in the museum, where the exhibition...
- Exhibition: More Re Cosi Lost Egypt
Columbus Dispatch (Michele Lemmon) At the end of the COSI Columbus exhibit "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science," children might chatter about a 2,200-year-old human mummy or a tiny animal mummy. Kate Storm, director of experience development,...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- Analysis Of Mummy Tchaenhotep.
http://tinyurl.com/bjmms The analysis of mummy of Tchaenhotep have been released. The mummy, which was removed from the Valley of the Kings in 1903, had been damaged during a 1937 flood in Lousville, when a piano landed on the mummy, and damaged the leg...