Egypt
Quad-Cities Online (Anthony Watt)
See the above page, which includes some fascinating scan images.
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- Putnam Museum Unwraps New Egyptian Mummy Display
Quad-City Times (Kay Luna) In less than two weeks, on Aug. 22, a newly renovated - and completely transformed and updated - Egyptian mummy exhibit will open to the public. Visitors will enter between two ancient-looking pillars, right into what Kastell...
- Egyptian Gallery At Putman Museum To Be Renovated
Quad-City Times The Putnam Museum's most iconic gallery is about to undergo a renovation, and officials at the Davenport venue want the public's help in giving it a new name to go with the new look. The Egyptian Gallery has housed two mummies...
- More Re Davenport Mummies
KGAN All a bit inconclusive: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport want some expert advice on their two mummies.A CT scan taken last week shows how the mummies were preserved -- but how they died remains a mystery. Museum officials says puncture...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...
Egypt
More re Putman Museum mummies
Quad-Cities Online (Anthony Watt)
How they died is still a mystery, but examinations of the two mummies at the Putnam Museum have revealed some of their secrets. The mummies, long-time attractions at the Davenport museum, were CT scanned and X-rayed Aug. 21 at Genesis Medical Center's west campus to find out more about them.
It is unlikely a cause of death will be discovered, said Eunice Schlichting and Christina Kastell, Putnam curators. It is hard to find clues in the soft tissues of a mummy, they said. And the Putnam mummies have no damage to their skeletons that could be attributed to something that happened when they were alive.
"I don't think it's probably likely that we will discover it (how they died)," said Ms. Schlichting. But the scans at Genesis did show the female, possibly named Isis Neferit, may still have her heart, while showing her male counterpart, whose name is not known, was not pillaged by thieves.
See the above page, which includes some fascinating scan images.
- Field Museum, Chicago, Ct Scans
Sun Times (Kara Spak) One of the Field Museum’s mummies is a 40-year-old woman who had lower back pain. A second was a teenager who may have jumped to his death. Another mummy has no torso. “It was a bit of a shocker” learning that within the sarcophagus...
- Putnam Museum Unwraps New Egyptian Mummy Display
Quad-City Times (Kay Luna) In less than two weeks, on Aug. 22, a newly renovated - and completely transformed and updated - Egyptian mummy exhibit will open to the public. Visitors will enter between two ancient-looking pillars, right into what Kastell...
- Egyptian Gallery At Putman Museum To Be Renovated
Quad-City Times The Putnam Museum's most iconic gallery is about to undergo a renovation, and officials at the Davenport venue want the public's help in giving it a new name to go with the new look. The Egyptian Gallery has housed two mummies...
- More Re Davenport Mummies
KGAN All a bit inconclusive: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport want some expert advice on their two mummies.A CT scan taken last week shows how the mummies were preserved -- but how they died remains a mystery. Museum officials says puncture...
- More Re Putnam Museum Mummies
WOI Tv (Source: Associated Press) A short update re the Iowa mummies: Officials at the Putnam Museum in Davenport hope modern technology will upwrap the history of 2 mummies. The mummies underwent CT scans at a hospital yesterday. Radiologist Andrew...