Egypt
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller)
With photographs/illustrations
- Video: Meresamun
Discovery News See the above page for the video. The face of Meresamun, a priestess who sang in the temples of Ancient Egypt hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, has been revealed to the world for the first time thanks to a X-ray with a light...
- Exhibition: Meresamun Opens In Chicago This Week
There have been lots of articles about the opening of at The Life of Meresamun at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago this week. The following are the best of the bunch from the last couple of days. CBBC Newsround There's an excellent 7-photograph...
- New Book: The Life Of Meresamun - A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
Oriental Institute This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute’s Museum. The text introduces...
- Exhibition: The Life Of Meresamun
Oriental Institute, Chicago February 10 - October 18, 2009 "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt," focuses on the life of a priestess-musician in Egypt in about the year 800 BC. The exhibit’s centerpiece is the coffin and mummy of...
- Meet Meresamun
The coffin and mummy of the temple singer Meresamun will be on display at the wonderful Oriental institute in Chicago this year. http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/special/meresamun/...
Egypt
Reconstructing the face of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller)
With photographs/illustrations
She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes. Her mummified remains, sealed 2,800 years ago in a skintight coffin of cartonnage (layers of linen and plaster), were examined by researchers at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute in September 2008 using the latest in CT scanning technology, a "256-slice" machine that produced startlingly vivid images. For months, she has since been the immensely popular subject of the Oriental Institute Museum's exhibition, The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt.
Now, the headline-making CT images have helped two individuals--each working separately with 3-D STL (stereolithography) images of Meresamun's skull produced from the scans, but using different techniques--reconstruct Meresamun's face.
- Video: Meresamun
Discovery News See the above page for the video. The face of Meresamun, a priestess who sang in the temples of Ancient Egypt hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, has been revealed to the world for the first time thanks to a X-ray with a light...
- Exhibition: Meresamun Opens In Chicago This Week
There have been lots of articles about the opening of at The Life of Meresamun at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago this week. The following are the best of the bunch from the last couple of days. CBBC Newsround There's an excellent 7-photograph...
- New Book: The Life Of Meresamun - A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
Oriental Institute This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute’s Museum. The text introduces...
- Exhibition: The Life Of Meresamun
Oriental Institute, Chicago February 10 - October 18, 2009 "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt," focuses on the life of a priestess-musician in Egypt in about the year 800 BC. The exhibit’s centerpiece is the coffin and mummy of...
- Meet Meresamun
The coffin and mummy of the temple singer Meresamun will be on display at the wonderful Oriental institute in Chicago this year. http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/special/meresamun/...