Egypt
Discover Magazine (Morgen Peck)
- Egyptians Fed Ibis Birds For The Afterlife
New Scientist (Linda Geddes) Ancient Egyptians paid special attention to the organs of their dead, embalming them so they would continue to function in the afterlife. Now it seems they did the same for sacrificed ibis birds, and even packed their stomachs...
- Pharaonic Brain Drain Bed
Egypt Daily Star News With photo. Egyptian antiquities authorities on Thursday revealed an ancient Pharaonic embalming bed unearthed from a mysterious tomb near Luxor used to prepare bodies for mummification more than 3,000 years ago. The wooden bed was...
- Meresamun To Go Under Oi Scanner
Chicago Tribune When doctors at the University of Chicago put the first patient through their new cutting-edge CT scanner, they weren't very concerned about her health. But they did hope to find clues into how she died, 3,000 years ago. Meresamun,...
- 'mr. Mummy' Reveals Great Pyramid Secret: Built From Inside?
Greenwich Citizen The unsolved mystery of how the 482-foot Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was made has captivated the curious for centuries. That fascination brought a standing-room-only crowd to the Bruce Museum some weeks ago when a noted Egyptologist,...
- Mr. Mummy At Home
This article and video are on the Egyptian collection owned by the well known Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier who is also known as Mr. Mummy. Dr. Brier's collection includes thousands of books, and artifacts including a mummy arm which appeared to me to...
Egypt
Mummies: Back from the Dead
Discover Magazine (Morgen Peck)
Bodies donated to science generally serve as interactive textbooks for the next generation of doctors, providing them one litigation-free chance to let their spectacles fall into a patient's thoracic cavity. But some corpses go beyond the call of duty. Among these, one corpse at the University of Maryland School of Medicine particularly stands out. Thirteen years ago, the donor—then a man in his seventies—died of a stroke, and the body was handed over to Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University, and Ronald Wade, director of the Maryland State Anatomy Board. After removing and pickling all the organs except the heart, Brier and Wade buried the body under hundreds of pounds of natron (basically baking soda and salt) for 30 days to dehydrate it. Once they removed the clumps of soggy natron, Brier and Wade sprinkled the desiccated body with frankincense and myrrh. What they ended up with looks a lot like a Hollywood monster, and indeed, it is the first authentic Egyptian-style mummy created in over 2,000 years.See the above page for the full story, accompanied by photographs.
- Egyptians Fed Ibis Birds For The Afterlife
New Scientist (Linda Geddes) Ancient Egyptians paid special attention to the organs of their dead, embalming them so they would continue to function in the afterlife. Now it seems they did the same for sacrificed ibis birds, and even packed their stomachs...
- Pharaonic Brain Drain Bed
Egypt Daily Star News With photo. Egyptian antiquities authorities on Thursday revealed an ancient Pharaonic embalming bed unearthed from a mysterious tomb near Luxor used to prepare bodies for mummification more than 3,000 years ago. The wooden bed was...
- Meresamun To Go Under Oi Scanner
Chicago Tribune When doctors at the University of Chicago put the first patient through their new cutting-edge CT scanner, they weren't very concerned about her health. But they did hope to find clues into how she died, 3,000 years ago. Meresamun,...
- 'mr. Mummy' Reveals Great Pyramid Secret: Built From Inside?
Greenwich Citizen The unsolved mystery of how the 482-foot Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was made has captivated the curious for centuries. That fascination brought a standing-room-only crowd to the Bruce Museum some weeks ago when a noted Egyptologist,...
- Mr. Mummy At Home
This article and video are on the Egyptian collection owned by the well known Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier who is also known as Mr. Mummy. Dr. Brier's collection includes thousands of books, and artifacts including a mummy arm which appeared to me to...