Egypt
Reconstructing Mummy
A mummy from Egypt's twenty first dynasty is having a model of its head made to look alive. I have little to no faith in this technology. I wonder if she will turn out to be white like King Tutankhamen's bust.
http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=259624&sc=29
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Education Kit Based On Analysis Of Mummy Remains
Science Alert The perennial fascination of ancient Egyptian mummies is being used by Queensland University of Technology researcher Dr Stephen Hughes to teach children about the application of physics to the field of archaeology. Dr Hughes has produced...
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On This Day In 1969 . . .
http://tinyurl.com/czw8r Scientists examining the 3,000-year-old mummy of King Tutankhamen of Egypt determine the boy had been murdered by a sharp blow to the head.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
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The Forgotten Boy
In the recent two year study of Eighteenth Dynasty royal mummies it seems that this boy from a side chamber in valley of kings tomb KV 35 was not included. There are artifacts from the tomb Kv 35 which belong to a son of Amenhotep II named Webensenu as...
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My Cold Naked Body
At some time in ancient history these were living beings with all their sensitivity and foibles of being alive. Everyone dies but not everyone has their body turned into a mummy and the people who do not want to look at the dead probably should not. The...
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Check Up For Shep-en-min
Vassar's mummy has received its turn in the C.T. scan. The mummy as indicated by the name of the God "Min" is from the Akmim area of Egypt. Happily he is the son of another well known mummy that of Pahat. http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080409/NEWS/804090351/-1/NEWS...
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