Egypt
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus)
With photo.
- New Book: Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate
Charlotte Observer (Alan Rauch) Resting in apparent tranquility at uptown's Discovery Place are more than 40 mummies from around the world. Charlotte is one of only a few American destinations for this major exhibit, and the opportunity to see so...
- Book Review: Mummies In Nineteenth Century America
Thanks to Cassandra Vivian for forwarding this to me. Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts S. J. Wolfe with Robert Singerman M cFarland Publishing. 2009 63 photos ISBN 978-0-7864-3941-6 www.mcfarlandpub.com Orders only...
- 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...
- Book Review: Mummies In 19th-century America
Fortrean Times (Christine Quigley) Mummies in 19th-Century America Author: SJ Wolfe, with Robert Singerman Publisher: McFarland, 2009 A intriguing study of a commodity used as display, currency and medicine - and faked using swaddled dead tramps... What...
- 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
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 true.
S.J. Wolfe of Worcester, a senior cataloger and serials specialist at the American Antiquarian Society, spent the last 10 years tracing the whereabouts of all the mummies that were imported to the United States.
She recently published a book, “Mummies in Nineteenth Century America,” in which she tells the stories of what happened to some of them.
- New Book: Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate
Charlotte Observer (Alan Rauch) Resting in apparent tranquility at uptown's Discovery Place are more than 40 mummies from around the world. Charlotte is one of only a few American destinations for this major exhibit, and the opportunity to see so...
- Book Review: Mummies In Nineteenth Century America
Thanks to Cassandra Vivian for forwarding this to me. Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts S. J. Wolfe with Robert Singerman M cFarland Publishing. 2009 63 photos ISBN 978-0-7864-3941-6 www.mcfarlandpub.com Orders only...
- 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...
- Book Review: Mummies In 19th-century America
Fortrean Times (Christine Quigley) Mummies in 19th-Century America Author: SJ Wolfe, with Robert Singerman Publisher: McFarland, 2009 A intriguing study of a commodity used as display, currency and medicine - and faked using swaddled dead tramps... What...
- 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...