Egypt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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- Exhibition: Brooklyn Examines Mummies
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- Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...
- More On Demetrios - Mummy Was Painted Red With Spanish Lead
Discovery News (Jennifer Viegas)The story does not offer much more than previous items, but there are photographs (on page 2) and a slide show (on page 1) which does not appear to have much to do with the story, but has footage of Zahi Hawass talking...
- More Re Brooklyn Mummies Examined For Exhibition
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Thanks to Robert Espino for pointing out this article on Suite 101. From Summer 2008 through Fall 2011, New York's Brooklyn Museum will circulate to more than 10 American venues To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the...
- Brooklyn's Mummies
The 5 human mummies including the mummy of Demetrios from the Brooklyn museums collection are receiving a full exam before the museums travelling exhibition begins. http://egyptian-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/brooklyn_museum_examines_mummies Here...
Egypt
Mummies in Brooklyn Museum To Undergo Scientific Study
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The Brooklyn Museum Conservation Laboratory is beginning a study of the human and animal mummies in the Museum’s collection, using the tools of modern-day scientific investigation to reveal new information about mummification practices in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago.
The project will bring together scientists from the Brooklyn Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and the University of Bristol in England. It will begin with the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) of the first-century C.E. mummy known as Demetrios, which will be a part of the forthcoming exhibition “To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum.”
X-ray fluorescence will allow analysis of the painted surfaces associated with the wrapping of mummies, including painted linen bandages and shrouds. Preliminary results have shown that the red paint used on the Demetrios mummy may have been made, in part, from components imported from Spain. The lead in the paint is suspected to have come from a Spanish silver mine, but it remains unclear whether the paint itself was manufactured there or, alternatively, whether if the lead ingredient was traded to Egypt with the paint then produced locally.
See the above page for the full story.
- Exhibition: Brooklyn Examines Mummies
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt is a traveling special exhibition devoted to Egyptian funerary art, practices and beliefs. In preparation for the show, scholars at New York's Brooklyn Museum...
- Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...
- More On Demetrios - Mummy Was Painted Red With Spanish Lead
Discovery News (Jennifer Viegas)The story does not offer much more than previous items, but there are photographs (on page 2) and a slide show (on page 1) which does not appear to have much to do with the story, but has footage of Zahi Hawass talking...
- More Re Brooklyn Mummies Examined For Exhibition
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Thanks to Robert Espino for pointing out this article on Suite 101. From Summer 2008 through Fall 2011, New York's Brooklyn Museum will circulate to more than 10 American venues To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the...
- Brooklyn's Mummies
The 5 human mummies including the mummy of Demetrios from the Brooklyn museums collection are receiving a full exam before the museums travelling exhibition begins. http://egyptian-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/brooklyn_museum_examines_mummies Here...