Egypt
- Ct Scan Yields Secrets Of Vassar College's Mummy
Times Herald-Record (Jeremiah Horrigan) I'm not quite sure how poor Shem-en-Min would have responded to being referred to as "the guy", or whether or not the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium will enjoy being referred to as CSI Egypt, but here's...
- Pesed: The Latest News
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_440253.htmlIt has been a while since the mummy Pesed has been reported upon, but this article has an update: "For more than 2,000 years, no one knew what Pesed looked like. Until Tuesday. The...
- College Of Wooster Art Center Shows `ancient Ohio/ancient Egypt'
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/12552237.htm"In 1885, a Presbyterian missionary in Egypt, the Rev. John Giffen bought four mummies still in their sarcophagi for the grand sum of $8 each. The mummies had been looted from their tombs near the...
- More About The Mummy Pesed
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/kshb/news/article/0,1925,KSHB_9418_3888564,00.html"Pesed is bouncing in the back of a Dodge Ram Van, much to the dismay of the young woman watching over her. The driver is lost, and they're a little late for Pesed's...
- More On The Mummy Pesed
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-28/1119821312111700.xml&storylist=penn "Last week, Pesed was taken to College Fields MRI in Neshannock, Lawrence County, for a CT scan, during which computers produced images of half-millimeter-thick...
Egypt
Pesed: Peeling back time
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_424846.html
The mummy Pesed has been mentioned more than once on this blog. She was donated in 1885 by the Reverend John Giffen, a missionary to Egypt and a Westminster graduate, to the Westminster College in New Wilmington. CT scans carried out in summer 2005 have helped to reveal details about the mummy. Jonathan Elias, an archaeologist and director of the Harrisburg-based Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, which paid for the CT scans and is leading the project has provided details: "Pesed was hunchbacked, her 5-foot, 5-inch frame wracked by osteoporosis, and 60 percent of her teeth were missing by the time of her death. Abscesses might have caused an infection that eventually killed her".
The daughter of a priest and temple musician, Pesed was probably a member of a privileged class in Akhmim. See the above article for more details.
- Ct Scan Yields Secrets Of Vassar College's Mummy
Times Herald-Record (Jeremiah Horrigan) I'm not quite sure how poor Shem-en-Min would have responded to being referred to as "the guy", or whether or not the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium will enjoy being referred to as CSI Egypt, but here's...
- Pesed: The Latest News
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_440253.htmlIt has been a while since the mummy Pesed has been reported upon, but this article has an update: "For more than 2,000 years, no one knew what Pesed looked like. Until Tuesday. The...
- College Of Wooster Art Center Shows `ancient Ohio/ancient Egypt'
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/12552237.htm"In 1885, a Presbyterian missionary in Egypt, the Rev. John Giffen bought four mummies still in their sarcophagi for the grand sum of $8 each. The mummies had been looted from their tombs near the...
- More About The Mummy Pesed
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/kshb/news/article/0,1925,KSHB_9418_3888564,00.html"Pesed is bouncing in the back of a Dodge Ram Van, much to the dismay of the young woman watching over her. The driver is lost, and they're a little late for Pesed's...
- More On The Mummy Pesed
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-28/1119821312111700.xml&storylist=penn "Last week, Pesed was taken to College Fields MRI in Neshannock, Lawrence County, for a CT scan, during which computers produced images of half-millimeter-thick...