Egypt
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Another version of this story appeared a few weeks ago.
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- In The Lab: Albany Mummies
Legislative Gazette Modern technology and ongoing research have unraveled mysteries about the two "Albany Mummies" that have been on display since 1909 at the Albany Institute of History and Art. To celebrate this 100 year milestone, the institute will...
- Scan For 2000 Year Old Mummy Of Child
The Age (Richard Macey) LIKE an expectant father, Michael Turner paced the floor anxiously yesterday. A few metres away the mummy of an Egyptian child who died, aged about seven 2000 years ago, was undergoing one of the most thorough examinations modern...
- Letters To The Crocodile God - Tebtunis
Archaeology Magazine Seventy-five miles south of Cairo, hidden by shifting sands on the edge of the desert, are the remains of the ancient oasis town of Tebtunis. Archaeologists and diggers clamber over the site, a collection of impressive ruins that...
- Maine Mills Used Mummy Wrappings To Create Paper
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/2939093.shtml"Researcher S.J. Wolfe, senior archivist for the American Antiquarian Society, said in the early 1850s adventurer and chemist Isaiah Deck suggested a bizarre solution to the lack of rags then...
Egypt
The Mystery Of The Mummy Paper
Seattle pi
Another version of this story appeared a few weeks ago.
Reality or urban legend: were the wrappings of ancient Egyptian corpses recycled and pulped to create so-called "mummy paper?" Archaeologists and other scholars have long debated the veracity of claims that mummies were imported into the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, stripped of their burial shrouds, and their bindings (largely composed of linen and other fibers such as papyrus and something akin to canvas) repurposed into printing paper. But, did this really happen? Are we being fleeced? Is this a fabricated tale? Can this yarn be unwound to get to the meat of the matter?
The answer to this puzzler, perhaps the holy grail of American Egyptology research (pardon the mixed metaphor), may have at long last been found at Brown University's John Hay Library. According to independent scholar and self-taught Egyptologist S.J. Wolfe, a document found in university's rare book collection is "the smoking gun" that proves mummies were mulched for newsprint.
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- In The Lab: Albany Mummies
Legislative Gazette Modern technology and ongoing research have unraveled mysteries about the two "Albany Mummies" that have been on display since 1909 at the Albany Institute of History and Art. To celebrate this 100 year milestone, the institute will...
- Scan For 2000 Year Old Mummy Of Child
The Age (Richard Macey) LIKE an expectant father, Michael Turner paced the floor anxiously yesterday. A few metres away the mummy of an Egyptian child who died, aged about seven 2000 years ago, was undergoing one of the most thorough examinations modern...
- Letters To The Crocodile God - Tebtunis
Archaeology Magazine Seventy-five miles south of Cairo, hidden by shifting sands on the edge of the desert, are the remains of the ancient oasis town of Tebtunis. Archaeologists and diggers clamber over the site, a collection of impressive ruins that...
- Maine Mills Used Mummy Wrappings To Create Paper
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/2939093.shtml"Researcher S.J. Wolfe, senior archivist for the American Antiquarian Society, said in the early 1850s adventurer and chemist Isaiah Deck suggested a bizarre solution to the lack of rags then...