Egypt
- Mummy Gets High-tech Treatment At Bmc
Berkshire Eagle (Jenn Smith) Though he may be a mummy, the Egyptian priest Pahat can still speak volumes about his ancient civilization. On Wednesday morning, the nearly 2,300-year-old Berkshire Museum resident and the lower half of his sarcophagus were...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- Reconstructed Face Gets Ready For Big Debut Sunday
pal-item.com Since the mummy joined the Wayne County Historical Museum collection nearly 80 years ago, children and adults have imagined the life of the person buried inside the sarcophagus. Advertisement Was the mummy a man? A woman? Recent efforts have...
- Mummy Moved To Leeds Museum
24 Hour Museum Specialist mountain-rescue kit was called in yesterday to move a Yorkshire mummy into its new resting place at the Leeds City Museum in Millennium Square, where he is expected to be a star attraction. Nesyamun – also known as The Leeds...
- Barnum Mummy Talks
http://tinyurl.com/y6drhw (courant.com)More about the Barnum mummy, and its purchaser, Phineas Taylor Barnum: "Recently, Pa-Ib, a mummy purported to be an ancient Egyptian priest, was moved from Bridgeport's Barnum Museum to a radiology office for...
Egypt
Mummy x-rays at Bridgeport's Barnum Museum
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5407619&nav=3YeX
"A two-thousand year old artifact hits the examination table at Bridgeport's Barnum Museum. An endoscopic camera and x-ray machine will help scientists get a rare look into the past of an Egyptian mummy. Word has it the mummy was once an Egyptian priest whose name was Pa-Ib (pie - eeeb), and now scientists from Quinnipiac University want to know more about this relic."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/15528287.htm
"If the mummy is stable enough to be moved, the archaeological team hopes to take a CT scan at a local doctor's office. That would give them a more detailed photograph than they were able to secure on site Thursday. The first film revealed Pa-Ib's got bad teeth . . . . the research would eventually reveal whether Pa-Ib had a life of labor or leisure, old fractures and the gender, Becker said. Kathy Maher, the museum's executive director, is eager for a translation of the hieroglyphics on Pa-Ib's sarcophagus."
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"A two-thousand year old artifact hits the examination table at Bridgeport's Barnum Museum. An endoscopic camera and x-ray machine will help scientists get a rare look into the past of an Egyptian mummy. Word has it the mummy was once an Egyptian priest whose name was Pa-Ib (pie - eeeb), and now scientists from Quinnipiac University want to know more about this relic."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/15528287.htm
"If the mummy is stable enough to be moved, the archaeological team hopes to take a CT scan at a local doctor's office. That would give them a more detailed photograph than they were able to secure on site Thursday. The first film revealed Pa-Ib's got bad teeth . . . . the research would eventually reveal whether Pa-Ib had a life of labor or leisure, old fractures and the gender, Becker said. Kathy Maher, the museum's executive director, is eager for a translation of the hieroglyphics on Pa-Ib's sarcophagus."
See the above page for more details.
- Mummy Gets High-tech Treatment At Bmc
Berkshire Eagle (Jenn Smith) Though he may be a mummy, the Egyptian priest Pahat can still speak volumes about his ancient civilization. On Wednesday morning, the nearly 2,300-year-old Berkshire Museum resident and the lower half of his sarcophagus were...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- Reconstructed Face Gets Ready For Big Debut Sunday
pal-item.com Since the mummy joined the Wayne County Historical Museum collection nearly 80 years ago, children and adults have imagined the life of the person buried inside the sarcophagus. Advertisement Was the mummy a man? A woman? Recent efforts have...
- Mummy Moved To Leeds Museum
24 Hour Museum Specialist mountain-rescue kit was called in yesterday to move a Yorkshire mummy into its new resting place at the Leeds City Museum in Millennium Square, where he is expected to be a star attraction. Nesyamun – also known as The Leeds...
- Barnum Mummy Talks
http://tinyurl.com/y6drhw (courant.com)More about the Barnum mummy, and its purchaser, Phineas Taylor Barnum: "Recently, Pa-Ib, a mummy purported to be an ancient Egyptian priest, was moved from Bridgeport's Barnum Museum to a radiology office for...