Special online feature: Priestess of Amun
Egypt

Special online feature: Priestess of Amun


Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller)

There is a great online feature about Meresamun on the Archaeology Magazine website. See the above page for a number of different sections which look at different aspects of Meresamun.

ARCHAEOLOGY's March/April 2009 cover story, "A Mummy's Life," tells of new research on the mummified remains of an Egyptian priestess named Meresamun who lived in Thebes around 800 B.C. Ensconced in a skintight coffin made of linen and plaster for almost 3,000 years, the issue's "cover girl" is also the highlight of an exhibition, The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt, on view at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum through December 6. In advance of the show, Meresamun was scanned using a state-of-the-art Philips Healthcare 256-slice Brilliance iCT scanner. She is the only mummy ever subject to such advanced technology.




- 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...

- Exhibition: More Re The Life Of Meresamun
University of Chicago Chronicle (William Harms) Thanks to Rhio for the above link. The story is accompanied by some good photographs. In preparation for the new show, a group of faculty, staff and graduate students in Egyptology teamed with Michael Vannier,...

- 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/...



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