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‘Night at Museum’ to unwrap mummy mysteries
The Barnum Museum will come alive for a very dead lady on March 25. That’s when a diminutive 5-foot 4-inch, 30-something with high cheek bones and a penchant for seasoning her veggies with sand will become a living, breathing person through the findings of Quinnipiac University’s Bioanthropology Research Institute. After her nearly 4,000-year sleep and... »
Stanford scans of mummy featured at “Very postmortem: Mummies and medicine”
Image via Wikipedia A 2,500-year-old priest named Irethorrou will be teaching anatomy to all comers in an exhibition beginning Oct. 31. The mummified remains of this onetime inhabitant of a Middle Egyptian city will be on display in his coffin at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, along with a reconstruction of Irethorrou’s head. The... »
Virtual autopsy of mummy at Walter Arts Museum
The Walters Art Museum and the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Diagnostic Radiology department joined forces to perform a virtual autopsy of the mummy of a woman who is the centerpiece of the museum’s exhibit “Mummified,” running from Nov. 15 through Nov. 8, 2009. The computerized tomography (CT) scan enables scholars and scientists... »
