Rare Old Kingdom Mummy
Egypt

Rare Old Kingdom Mummy


A rarely seen Egyptian mummy from the Old Kingdom is set to go on display at the Michael Carlos Museum. The mummy is the oldest in the western hemisphere and one of  less than ten known to exist.




- Exhibition: Life And Death In The Pyramid Age
Michael C. Carlos Museum Acquired from excavations at the sacred site of Abydos in Middle Egypt by Emory Theology Professor, Rev. William A. Shelton in 1920, this mummy is the oldest Egyptian mummy in the Western Hemisphere and one of no more than half...

- Podcast: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy
Michael C. Carlos Museum iTunes required. In September of this year, the Carlos Museum will open the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy, which will focus attention on a 4,000 year old mummy that was purchased for...

- Mummy Returns To Luxor
drhawass.com With photo. A mummy returns to the Luxor Museum in 2003 after being out of Egypt for over a century. This mummy was removed from Egypt during the 19th century, and put on display in the Niagara Falls Museum. In 1999, when the Museum closed,...

- Prostate Cancer In Mummy
A Ptolemaic mummy of a middle aged man known as M1 is being studied by an international team of researchers to see what ailed the man. Through CT scanning the team have found prostate cancer would have made his life miserable for years before he died....

- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...



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