Egypt
- Mummy Reunited With Mask
The Republic The mummy Nefrina came face to face with her funeral mask Wednesday, as the likeness that had been buried with her — but was separated the past 82 years — was returned to her in the Reading Public Museum. Museum Director John Graydon...
- Exhibition: Nefrina's World
The Pottstown Mercury (Jan Feighner) With photos. Eerie heads line Dr. Jonathan Elias' office. Like a scene from a bad B science fiction flick, skulls and sculptures watch the Egyptologist's every move. As director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies...
- 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...
- Facial Reconstruction Advances
Otago Daily Times (John Gibb) Revolutionary advances in the science of facial reconstruction may soon make it much easier to identify missing people, including crime victims, when little more than a skull has been found. Dr George Dias, a University of...
- Pesed Reconstruction - With Wrinkles
http://tinyurl.com/kebcj (IOL) "The face of a 2 300-year-old Egyptian mummy has been reconstructed as the elderly woman she was, wrinkles and all. The bust by Philadelphia forensic sculptor Frank Bender differs from most reconstructions, which typically...
Egypt
Reconstructed face of 2300 mummy
http://tinyurl.com/empxg (news.pajamasmedia.com)
"She has emotion, character, serenity. And though she's but a plaster reconstruction, she's far more personable than her namesake whose mummified remains lie upstairs in the Reading Public Museum. Nefrina the mummy was a woman who lived about 2,300 years ago in the Nile River city of Ahkmim. The museum has had her Xrayed and CT-scanned. From that it has learned much about her life -- and her death from complications resulting from a badly treated hip fracture. . . . But museum Director Ronald C. Roth won't let a visitor take a photo of the plaster bust on his office shelf, or even describe her surprising facial features. She's reserved for an unveiling early next year as the museum gears up for a major exhibit centering on the mummy in 2008.The museum has even changed the English spelling of her name to Nefrina -- to be more pronounceable and visitor-friendly -- from the linguistically purer Nefer-ii-ne. Created by renowned Philadelphia forensic reconstruction artist Frank Bender, the bust is based on a polymer replica of Nefrina's skull."
See the above page for the full story. This was originally taken from the Reading Eagle website, but that link no longer appears to be working.
The Reading Museum website is at http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/, but there are no details yet about the forthcoming exhibition.
The Reading Museum website is at http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/, but there are no details yet about the forthcoming exhibition.
- Mummy Reunited With Mask
The Republic The mummy Nefrina came face to face with her funeral mask Wednesday, as the likeness that had been buried with her — but was separated the past 82 years — was returned to her in the Reading Public Museum. Museum Director John Graydon...
- Exhibition: Nefrina's World
The Pottstown Mercury (Jan Feighner) With photos. Eerie heads line Dr. Jonathan Elias' office. Like a scene from a bad B science fiction flick, skulls and sculptures watch the Egyptologist's every move. As director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies...
- 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...
- Facial Reconstruction Advances
Otago Daily Times (John Gibb) Revolutionary advances in the science of facial reconstruction may soon make it much easier to identify missing people, including crime victims, when little more than a skull has been found. Dr George Dias, a University of...
- Pesed Reconstruction - With Wrinkles
http://tinyurl.com/kebcj (IOL) "The face of a 2 300-year-old Egyptian mummy has been reconstructed as the elderly woman she was, wrinkles and all. The bust by Philadelphia forensic sculptor Frank Bender differs from most reconstructions, which typically...