Egypt
- Albany Mummies To Go Under The Scanner
YNN (Beth Croughan) With Video. It's the most popular exhibition at the Albany Institute of History and Art. But Saturday, part of the Ancient Egypt display is taken out of the museum to unwrap a mystery. There were no sirens as the Five Quad...
- Putnam Museum Unwraps New Egyptian Mummy Display
Quad-City Times (Kay Luna) In less than two weeks, on Aug. 22, a newly renovated - and completely transformed and updated - Egyptian mummy exhibit will open to the public. Visitors will enter between two ancient-looking pillars, right into what Kastell...
- Egyptian Gallery At Putman Museum To Be Renovated
Quad-City Times The Putnam Museum's most iconic gallery is about to undergo a renovation, and officials at the Davenport venue want the public's help in giving it a new name to go with the new look. The Egyptian Gallery has housed two mummies...
- More Re Davenport Mummies
KGAN All a bit inconclusive: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport want some expert advice on their two mummies.A CT scan taken last week shows how the mummies were preserved -- but how they died remains a mystery. Museum officials says puncture...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...
Egypt
Putnam Museum hopes scans will tell more about 2 mummies
WCF Courier
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The Putnam Museum is in Iowa (U.S.) can be found online at:
http://www.putnam.org/exhibits.html#
The Putnam Museum is sending two of its mummies on a field trip in hopes of learning more about their history.The mummies, described as among the Davenport museum's most prized and popular possessions, will be carefully removed from their cases on Tuesday and taken by ambulance to Genesis Medical Center's West Central Park Avenue Campus, where they will undergo CT scans.
The scans, being donated by the hospital, are expected to reveal new information about the mummies, such as their ages, genders and maybe even how they died . . . .
The museum hopes to post new information about their history by November.
See the above page for more.
The Putnam Museum is in Iowa (U.S.) can be found online at:
http://www.putnam.org/exhibits.html#
- Albany Mummies To Go Under The Scanner
YNN (Beth Croughan) With Video. It's the most popular exhibition at the Albany Institute of History and Art. But Saturday, part of the Ancient Egypt display is taken out of the museum to unwrap a mystery. There were no sirens as the Five Quad...
- Putnam Museum Unwraps New Egyptian Mummy Display
Quad-City Times (Kay Luna) In less than two weeks, on Aug. 22, a newly renovated - and completely transformed and updated - Egyptian mummy exhibit will open to the public. Visitors will enter between two ancient-looking pillars, right into what Kastell...
- Egyptian Gallery At Putman Museum To Be Renovated
Quad-City Times The Putnam Museum's most iconic gallery is about to undergo a renovation, and officials at the Davenport venue want the public's help in giving it a new name to go with the new look. The Egyptian Gallery has housed two mummies...
- More Re Davenport Mummies
KGAN All a bit inconclusive: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport want some expert advice on their two mummies.A CT scan taken last week shows how the mummies were preserved -- but how they died remains a mystery. Museum officials says puncture...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...