Egypt
- Egyptian Gallery At Putman Museum To Be Renovated
Quad-City Times The Putnam Museum's most iconic gallery is about to undergo a renovation, and officials at the Davenport venue want the public's help in giving it a new name to go with the new look. The Egyptian Gallery has housed two mummies...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- Hateshepsut Mummy Identified By Dna
It's just my luck that all this kicked off whilst I was away - my two inboxes are a complete nightmare. Anyway, as far as I can tell here are the best of the bunch. Thanks to Kat Newkirk who continues to keep me both moderately sane and on track....
- A New Home For Mummies
http://tinyurl.com/cv9hu (Egyptian State Information Service)A new hall to display mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in two weeks time. The eleven mummies on display were part of a cache of 40 saved by priests of Amun in the 21st Dynasty, and reburied...
- 12 Mummies To Be Displayed At Egyptian Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o240825g.htm"Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni is to open next month the second hall for displaying the royal mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square after the Ministry completed a project to develop display...
Egypt
Review of the new mummy gallery in Cairo
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/808/hr2.htm
Nevine el-Aref reviews the new mummy gallery at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, giving very useful details about the origins of the mummies displayed. "The 53 mummies, the total in the two caches, were kept in the Egyptian museum for decades until 1994, when the first Royal Mummies Hall was opened on the museum's second floor. Last week, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni inaugurated the second gallery after two years of preparation. The opening comes almost 12 years after the opening of the first, which displays 11 royal mummies from the age of empire that began in the late 17th Dynasty and continued through the 19th Dynasty. Pharaohs of this period led the liberation war against the Hyksos.
The second gallery is designed like a royal tomb, with a vaulted ceiling and low, indirect lighting. It displays 11 mummies that are exhibited inside special showcases, each supplied with a small electronic device to observe and control the humidity level around the mummy minute by minute. The mummies belong to royal individuals of the 20th Dynasty such as Pharaoh Ramses III, and to priests of Amun who ruled the southern half of Egypt as priest-kings. . . . This room also displays three mummies of queens, including that of Maatkare."
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- Egyptian Gallery At Putman Museum To Be Renovated
Quad-City Times The Putnam Museum's most iconic gallery is about to undergo a renovation, and officials at the Davenport venue want the public's help in giving it a new name to go with the new look. The Egyptian Gallery has housed two mummies...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- Hateshepsut Mummy Identified By Dna
It's just my luck that all this kicked off whilst I was away - my two inboxes are a complete nightmare. Anyway, as far as I can tell here are the best of the bunch. Thanks to Kat Newkirk who continues to keep me both moderately sane and on track....
- A New Home For Mummies
http://tinyurl.com/cv9hu (Egyptian State Information Service)A new hall to display mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in two weeks time. The eleven mummies on display were part of a cache of 40 saved by priests of Amun in the 21st Dynasty, and reburied...
- 12 Mummies To Be Displayed At Egyptian Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o240825g.htm"Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni is to open next month the second hall for displaying the royal mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square after the Ministry completed a project to develop display...