Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb

On the 4th of May 2013, I had the privilege to travel to Singapore and visit the "Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb" exhibition. This was my first Egyptian exhibition, so I did not know what to expect except that I would have an amazing time, since one of the top 5 items on my bucket list is to visit an Egyptian exhibition. (checked!)

The exhibition features over a 100 artefacts including 6 mummies - 4 human mummies and 2 animal mummies. The main star of the exhibition is a priest from the 22nd Dynasty (Thebes); Nesperennub. His coffin has not been opened and his mummy remains wrapped, but thanks to technology, the exhibition begins with a film of the virtual unwrapping of Nesperennub.

If you are in Singapore or nearby enough to travel to Singapore, from now till 4 November 2013, and are interested in history or just curious, I highly suggest you take a trip down the Egyptian afterlife and visit the exhibition at the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands.


For more information:

Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb at the ArtScience Museum


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"Hi my name is Padi"

The Massachusetts General Hospital invited the public to meet  from the operating theater of the Ether Dome, an Egyptian mummy named Padihershef.

Click the link below to read what The Globe's Meghan E. Irons wrote:

Let's meet Padi

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"Baby-making season" in Roman Egypt revealed

Never knew such a season existed - a very interesting find, I must admit.

To read more, click the link below:

http://www.livescience.com/32078-ancient-egypt-cemetery-reveals-sex-season.html

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Wait. What?!

So according to Antoine Vivenel, "a museum without a mummy, is not a museum". 

For more, click the link below:

http://archaeology-travel.com/museums/a-museum-without-a-mummy/


Personally, I find it somewhat absurd.


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One word: Mummy

 

 

Penn Museum's Egyptian Mummy Gallery in 1935

 

 

 

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Someone's making mummies?

So is Penn Museum making mummies? Do they need extra mummies?

To find out more, click the link below:

http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/2013/03/29/we-arent-making-mummies-or-are-we/


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Conserving Egyptian Mummies

Found this interesting website that is hosted by the Penn Museum's conservation staff and Egyptian Section curators.

http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/

Hope you enjoy it.


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17 year old Cleopatra from Thebes

Courtesy of www.britishmuseum.org

 

Technically known as EA 6707, from the Henry Salt Collection at the British Museum, Cleopatra was a 17 year old girl, who lived in Thebes during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, and based on the inscription on her coffin, she is the daughter of a vital official of the government. She should not be confused with the infamous Cleopatra VII, who died approximately 150 years before this Cleopatra.

It is unlikely that her mummy has been unwrapped, nevertheless, Cleopatra has undergone an X-ray and based on the X-ray evidences, under the loose and messy outer wrappings, she is tightly bandaged - so tightly wrapped that it seems her left hip has been dislocated.

Unfortunately, without further  in-depth examination, we are unsure of her cause of death. Nonetheless, owing to her young age, death during childhood cannot be dismiss, especially since during those days, simple cuts and grazes could be fatal as a result of the lack of proper medication or antibiotics, or if she had a weak immune system, she would have succumbed to any childhood diseases.



Courtesy of www.britishmuseum.org

 

 

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Clogged arteries in ancient mummies?

One would assume that people today suffer from clogged arteries because of the unhealthy lifestyle we adopt in this age. But the article [click the link below] notes that even ancient mummies had clogged arteries, proving that this illness knows no (time) boundaries.

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/even-ancient-mummies-had-clogged-arteries-1.232687#ixzz2NC3n5bVt

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