Egypt
- Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies Database Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods...
- Animal Mummies – X-radiography, And Coming Soon – Ct Scans!
Brooklyn Museum (Lisa Bruno) These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS. In earlier blog posts...
- Open Access Database - Animal Mummies
Ancient World Online See the above page for links. Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings...
- Mask Of The Mummy
National Geographic Thanks to Tony Marson for this link. A five-photo slideshow with detailed captions looks specifically at ancient Egyptian mummified crocodiles. The photos are excellent. There's a real crocodile behind that mask, according to...
- Menagerie Of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989 New Scientist article about a new collection of animal mummies being studied by the Natural History Museum in London, UK. X-ray analysis of the skeletons of some of the animals, particularly cats, suggests...
Egypt
Mummy fraud discovered after 2,000 years
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1802733,00.html
Guardian Unlimited article about the results of CT scans on a number of mummies, carried out prior to the reopening this month of the Egyptian Galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge: "Analysis continues after the mummies were run through a CT scanner and other tests, but the preliminary results are startling. The two baby crocodile shaped mummies were originally sold to worshippers at the temple at Hawara, to be buried in ritual pits as an offering to the god Sobek. There was clearly a history of problems with the animal sellers: a pharaonic decree a century earlier had ordered that each mummy should contain the body of one animal.
The museum's kitten mummy did indeed hold a very small cat, and there was a sacred ibis within the spectacularly elaborate wrappings of another. The crocodiles however were spectacularly lacking in crocodile: one held a minute vertebra, the other a handful of straw, rags and mud without a scrap of any animal content at all."
The museum's kitten mummy did indeed hold a very small cat, and there was a sacred ibis within the spectacularly elaborate wrappings of another. The crocodiles however were spectacularly lacking in crocodile: one held a minute vertebra, the other a handful of straw, rags and mud without a scrap of any animal content at all."
- Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies Database Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods...
- Animal Mummies – X-radiography, And Coming Soon – Ct Scans!
Brooklyn Museum (Lisa Bruno) These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS. In earlier blog posts...
- Open Access Database - Animal Mummies
Ancient World Online See the above page for links. Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings...
- Mask Of The Mummy
National Geographic Thanks to Tony Marson for this link. A five-photo slideshow with detailed captions looks specifically at ancient Egyptian mummified crocodiles. The photos are excellent. There's a real crocodile behind that mask, according to...
- Menagerie Of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989 New Scientist article about a new collection of animal mummies being studied by the Natural History Museum in London, UK. X-ray analysis of the skeletons of some of the animals, particularly cats, suggests...