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Ancient Egypt workshop for kids only: "mummies" not allowed
Ancient Egypt comes to life again this summer when Cal State San Bernardino offers its popular art workshops to budding artists and archeologists from throughout the Inland Empire. The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum at the university hosts its annual summer Egyptian Art Workshop series for kids ages 10-13 July 27-30. The art museum is... »
Summer Day Camp at Pennsylvania Museum
Image by eTombotron via Flickr For the summer of 2009, adventurous children ages 7 through 13 can experience a day camp that takes them through time and across continents – at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Penn’s campus in Philadelphia. “Anthropologists in the Making,” organized by the Education Department of the... »
It's a boy! Hospital brain scanner reveals the identity of 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy
Three Ancient Egyptian child mummies dating 2000 years were virtually unwrapped by sophisticated X-ray scanners more usually used to detect brain tumours in hospitals. Within just an hour of starting the scans at BMI The Blackheath Hospital, in London, the scientists made a startling discovery. A gold-masked mummy, long thought to belong to a girl... »
