Egypt
Richmond times Dispatch
With photo.
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The Collegian, University of Richmond (Guv Callahan) Few students are aware that a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has been the University of Richmond’s property for 133 years. The mummy, Tchai-Ameni-Newit, and her sarcophagus are on public display in...
- Ancient Mummies In Indiana
News Link Indiana As of this Thursday, there are currently three "mummies" in Indiana, two of which are in Richmond. One of them rests at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The building itself dates back to 1865 and was founded by Julia Meek Gaar. Gaar...
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- The Mummy
A 2700 year old lady is on display in a glass sided drawer along with her coffin in a case above her. http://www.thecollegianur.com/2009/02/26/richmond%E2%80%99s-classical-department-displays-2700-year-old-mummy/...
Egypt
University of Richmond mummy on display
Richmond times Dispatch
With photo.
Ancient Egyptian mummies come and go in Richmond, but Ti Ameny Net and Tjeby the Younger are here to stay.
Ti Ameny Net and her elaborately painted coffin, housed in the University of Richmond's Ancient World Gallery, are surely UR's best-kept archaeological secret.
That will change Feb. 24 when "Ti Ameny Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman and Modern Science" opens at UR's Lora Robins Gallery of Design From Nature. This small show will remain on view through June 29.
Tjeby the Younger is no stranger to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts visitors with long memories. Until his coffin was closed in 1984, he fired the imaginations of schoolchildren for two decades as they peered down a shaft to see his dimly lighted form in his partly open coffin.
- Sad News: Virginia Burton
Richmond Times Dispatch (Ellen Robertson) As a curator of Egyptian art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Lucille Virginia Burton often traveled alone, except for a guide, to archaeological spots throughout the Middle East. "'Ginny'...
- Classical Department Displays 2,700-year-old Mummy
The Collegian, University of Richmond (Guv Callahan) Few students are aware that a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has been the University of Richmond’s property for 133 years. The mummy, Tchai-Ameni-Newit, and her sarcophagus are on public display in...
- Ancient Mummies In Indiana
News Link Indiana As of this Thursday, there are currently three "mummies" in Indiana, two of which are in Richmond. One of them rests at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The building itself dates back to 1865 and was founded by Julia Meek Gaar. Gaar...
- Mummy Secrets Of The Tomb
Here we have a travelling American exhibition presented by the British Museum and opening in Richmond Virginia at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will run from November 19, 2011 through to March 11, 2012 and display more than a hundred...
- The Mummy
A 2700 year old lady is on display in a glass sided drawer along with her coffin in a case above her. http://www.thecollegianur.com/2009/02/26/richmond%E2%80%99s-classical-department-displays-2700-year-old-mummy/...