Egypt
The Star, Ontario
With video.
- Mosi Mummy Exhibit Unwraps Thousands Of Years Of Mysteries (u.s.)
Tampa Bay Online (Cloe Cabrera) The cherubic-faced baby sits frozen in eternal repose, arms crossed on its knees, trimmed hair, tiny fingernails and a small amulet around its neck. Researchers don't know the infant's gender, but they believe the...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- Baby Mummies At The Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum has always had a place in my heart as one of my favorite haunts in the years I lived in Toronto. Another is the Gardiner Museum across the street from the ROM. Here is a video featuring ROM egyptologist Gayle Gibson on a pair...
Egypt
Virtual Reality Tour of the ROM's mummy babies
The Star, Ontario
With video.
Gayle Gibson, a teacher and Egyptologist at the ROM, takes us behind the scenes and reveals fascinating details of two little mummies in their collection. The mummies have not been on display to the public for decades and will likely remain in storage.
Somewhere deep in the organized jungle of museum storage, Gayle Gibson leans against a long stretch of counter, cooing and fussing over a baby named Hor.
“Poor little fella,” says Gibson, an Egyptologist and teacher at the Royal Ontario Museum. She smiles parentally at the 2,000-year-old mummified infant resting in front of her.
“He’s a nice little kid.”
The years have been good to the preserved infant, but his age does show. Hor is flatter than he used to be and freakishly long. He looks kind of like a deflated tire or a piece of chocolate that melted and got hard again.
- Mosi Mummy Exhibit Unwraps Thousands Of Years Of Mysteries (u.s.)
Tampa Bay Online (Cloe Cabrera) The cherubic-faced baby sits frozen in eternal repose, arms crossed on its knees, trimmed hair, tiny fingernails and a small amulet around its neck. Researchers don't know the infant's gender, but they believe the...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Cat Scan Of Adult Mummy From Royal Ontario Museum
The Star The above article looks at results from scans on four mummies owned by the Royal Ontario Museum, one of which, an anonymous adult, was scanned last week. The previously scanned mummies are also described, including two infants and a female musician...
- 3000 Year Old Mummy Scanned
London Free Press (Daniela Simunac) Secrets that had been kept under wraps for nearly 3,000 years were unravelled in seconds when an Egyptian mummy underwent a CT scan at a London hospital. The mummy slowly entered the state-of-the-art scanner at Victoria...
- Baby Mummies At The Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum has always had a place in my heart as one of my favorite haunts in the years I lived in Toronto. Another is the Gardiner Museum across the street from the ROM. Here is a video featuring ROM egyptologist Gayle Gibson on a pair...