Egypt
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Unravelling two tales of two mummies pal-item.com Rachel E. Sheeley On a day when children costumed as mummies go trick-or-treating, it's appropriate that new information has been acquired and new conservation efforts made for the only two Egyptian...
- Reconstructed Face Gets Ready For Big Debut Sunday
pal-item.com Since the mummy joined the Wayne County Historical Museum collection nearly 80 years ago, children and adults have imagined the life of the person buried inside the sarcophagus. Advertisement Was the mummy a man? A woman? Recent efforts have...
- 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...
- Hoosier Mummies Inspire Learning
Noblesville Daily Times Julia Meek Gaar was monied. And well-traveled. She was also philanthropic. So when she went to Egypt in February 1929 and bought a mummy from an antiquities dealer, she intended to ship it back to the Richmond historical society...
- Wayne County Historical Museum Exhibit Expanded
http://tinyurl.com/g88xl (pal-item.com)"In a journey of discovery much like opening an Egyptian tomb, work has begun to refurbish the exhibit that surrounds the mummy at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The mummy, bought for the museum by its founder...
Egypt
Wayne County Historical Museum mummy
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"There are still mysteries, but Bonnie M. Sampsell has been a super sleuth, helping the Wayne County Historical Museum answer many questions about its mummy and its Egyptian collection. Richmond native Sampsell, who now lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., started putting her passion for Egyptology to work for the museum last summer. She began cataloging the artifacts, researching the collection and updating the mummy's display. . . . Many of the questions centered on the mummy -- a favorite of visiting school children for years. Museum founder Julia Meek Gaar bought the mummy during a 1929 visit to Cairo, Egypt. She was told the mummy had been on exhibition in a curio store there for 40 years before the shop owner decided to sell it to her.
Sampsell used X-rays taken of the mummy in 1974 and 2000, a CAT scan done in 2000, along with other photographs and information to seek answers during her own recent trip to Cairo.
The mummy has long been believed to be a priestess because of the markings on the sarcophagus, but the expert in Egyptian skeletons that Sampsell consulted in Cairo believes the mummy is a man. The skull, she said, appears to be that of a male age 30 to 35, and the X-rayed skeleton also appears to be a male of the same age."
Sampsell used X-rays taken of the mummy in 1974 and 2000, a CAT scan done in 2000, along with other photographs and information to seek answers during her own recent trip to Cairo.
The mummy has long been believed to be a priestess because of the markings on the sarcophagus, but the expert in Egyptian skeletons that Sampsell consulted in Cairo believes the mummy is a man. The skull, she said, appears to be that of a male age 30 to 35, and the X-rayed skeleton also appears to be a male of the same age."
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Bonnie Sampsell is the author of the excellent A Traveler's Guide to the Geology of Egypt, published by the AUC. For details of this very useful resource, see the AUC website at:
Bonnie Sampsell is the author of the excellent A Traveler's Guide to the Geology of Egypt, published by the AUC. For details of this very useful resource, see the AUC website at:
http://www.aucpress.com/p-2298-a-travelers-guide-to-the-geology-of-egypt.aspx
- In The Lab
Unravelling two tales of two mummies pal-item.com Rachel E. Sheeley On a day when children costumed as mummies go trick-or-treating, it's appropriate that new information has been acquired and new conservation efforts made for the only two Egyptian...
- Reconstructed Face Gets Ready For Big Debut Sunday
pal-item.com Since the mummy joined the Wayne County Historical Museum collection nearly 80 years ago, children and adults have imagined the life of the person buried inside the sarcophagus. Advertisement Was the mummy a man? A woman? Recent efforts have...
- 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...
- Hoosier Mummies Inspire Learning
Noblesville Daily Times Julia Meek Gaar was monied. And well-traveled. She was also philanthropic. So when she went to Egypt in February 1929 and bought a mummy from an antiquities dealer, she intended to ship it back to the Richmond historical society...
- Wayne County Historical Museum Exhibit Expanded
http://tinyurl.com/g88xl (pal-item.com)"In a journey of discovery much like opening an Egyptian tomb, work has begun to refurbish the exhibit that surrounds the mummy at the Wayne County Historical Museum. The mummy, bought for the museum by its founder...