Egypt
The Northern Echo
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- Feature: Discovery Of An Intact Tomb At Saqqara
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video. This past year we found a new tomb in Saqqara, in the Gisr el-Mudir area. I was there when we opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus. Before the event, I could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about the...
- In The Lab
Unravelling two tales of two mummies pal-item.com Rachel E. Sheeley On a day when children costumed as mummies go trick-or-treating, it's appropriate that new information has been acquired and new conservation efforts made for the only two Egyptian...
- Items From Durham Visit Japan
JournalLive THE Japan tour saw a mummy from Durham University’s Oriental Museum undertake the longest journey in his 2,300-year history. The mummy, thought to be a priest aged 50 to 60 from Akhmim, has probably been in the North East since the 19th...
- Egyptian Obelisk Begins Journey To The Far East
The Northern Echo AN Egyptian obelisk has completed the first stage of its journey to Japan after being removed from its North-East home of the past 47 years.Specialists were called in to help ease the 3,000-year-old artefact from its concrete base at...
- More Re The Hancock Museum Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/hvkhz (icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk)"Details of the life and death of an ancient Egyptian woman began to emerge yesterday after her mummified body was scanned at a Tyneside hospital. Experts from the Hancock Museum in the city are examining...
Egypt
Safe journey... or your mummy back
The Northern Echo
TWO Egyptian mummies were yesterday transported into storage in a less than royal fashion – in a box van.
Even though the transport was not the most salubrious on offer, they were treated with the utmost care and deference.
Segedunum Roman Fort , in Wallsend, North Tyneside, bade farewell to its most popular guests, as they made their way to Beamish Museum, in Stanley, County Durham, before their final journey to the Great North Museum – due to open in Newcastle in April next year.
Irt-Irw, a 2,500-year-old mummy found in an ornate coffin in Thebes, Egypt, when Napoleon invaded in 1798, and Bakt-Hor-Nekht, who is still inside her coffin, left their temporary home yesterday.
The mummies and their coffins were placed in specially designed crates to ensure a safe journey, and conservation officer Rachel Metcalfe was on hand to ensure that everything went smoothly.
See the above page for the full story.
- Feature: Discovery Of An Intact Tomb At Saqqara
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With video. This past year we found a new tomb in Saqqara, in the Gisr el-Mudir area. I was there when we opened a sealed limestone sarcophagus. Before the event, I could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about the...
- In The Lab
Unravelling two tales of two mummies pal-item.com Rachel E. Sheeley On a day when children costumed as mummies go trick-or-treating, it's appropriate that new information has been acquired and new conservation efforts made for the only two Egyptian...
- Items From Durham Visit Japan
JournalLive THE Japan tour saw a mummy from Durham University’s Oriental Museum undertake the longest journey in his 2,300-year history. The mummy, thought to be a priest aged 50 to 60 from Akhmim, has probably been in the North East since the 19th...
- Egyptian Obelisk Begins Journey To The Far East
The Northern Echo AN Egyptian obelisk has completed the first stage of its journey to Japan after being removed from its North-East home of the past 47 years.Specialists were called in to help ease the 3,000-year-old artefact from its concrete base at...
- More Re The Hancock Museum Mummy
http://tinyurl.com/hvkhz (icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk)"Details of the life and death of an ancient Egyptian woman began to emerge yesterday after her mummified body was scanned at a Tyneside hospital. Experts from the Hancock Museum in the city are examining...