Egypt
Success of Mummies Exhibition at Bowers Museum
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-king-tut,0,296790.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds
This is a actually an article about public reactions to the Tutankhamun exhibition, but a couple of lines at the end of the article compare it with the exhibition also currently showing, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana: "Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt is a collection of 126 objects and 14 mummies being shown for the first time in this country. 'That's what puts our exhibit on par with LACMA's: the mummies,' Bowers spokesman Rick Weinberg said. Even without the publicity of the King Tut show, the exhibit has sold more than 40,000 tickets since opening in April".
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Exhibition: Death And The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt
Daily Titan Historians have always been fascinated by the culture of Egyptians and their unique approach to life, death, mummification and the possibility of resurrection. Media has shown, however, that it is not only historians who are intrigued by...
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Exhibitions And The Afterlife
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14813 Los Angeles film producer Tom Teicholz visits LACMA (Tutankhamun) and the Bowers Museum (Mummies: Death and the Afterlife) to review the exhibitions currently showing there, and ponders about the...
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Bowers Museum Mummy Ct Scans
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050504/news_lz1c04mummy.html "Six of the British Museum's mummies – part of a new exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana – were recently "cat-scanned" by a team of Orange County radiologists. Some of...
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Mummies Undergo Ct Scans
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050408/ap_on_sc/scanning_mummies_2 Mummies at the Bowers Museum in California have been subjected to CT scans in the latest fashionable round of mummy-scanning. Of the six mummies examined, one was a priest...
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Bowers Museum Mummy Scans
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=13127 "A team of radiologists and curators will conduct computed tomography (CT) scans of six ancient Egyptian mummies from the renowned collections of the British Museum. The mummies...
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