Egypt
Quad-City Times (Kay Luna)
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- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
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- Putnam Museum Hopes Scans Will Tell More About 2 Mummies
WCF Courier 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...
Egypt
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 hopes will feel like an undisturbed Egyptian tomb.
"My goal is to make the visitor feel like they're an Egyptologist studying this," she said.
But it won't be completely ancient.
The display will include surprising new information, gleaned from rare CT, or computed tomography, scans of the mummies that were donated two years ago by Genesis Medical Center, and it will do so with computerized touch-screen technology.
Right now, the mummy room is empty and dark.
The Putnam's two Egyptian mummies, still in their old cases, have been moved carefully into the room that connects to their exhibit room downstairs, but you'd have to crawl around and over shelving units to see them.
Things are definitely out of place everywhere downstairs.
But just wait. Big changes are on the way: more than $50,000 worth of work, paid for with lots of help from grants and in-kind contributions, said Betsy Matt Turner, the Putnam's development director.
- 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...
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- More Re Putman Museum Mummies
Quad-Cities Online (Anthony Watt) How they died is still a mystery, but examinations of the two mummies at the Putnam Museum have revealed some of their secrets. The mummies, long-time attractions at the Davenport museum, were CT scanned and X-rayed Aug....
- 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...
- Putnam Museum Hopes Scans Will Tell More About 2 Mummies
WCF Courier 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...