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A cat mummy from the British Museum. Get wrapped up in mummies Both kids and adults visiting London’s vast British Museum usually make a beeline for Rooms 62-64.
The museum has two rare bull mummies, and this one had been in storage. This mummy contains the remains of a bull, dating to between 300 B.C. and A.D. 400, wrapped in linen.
The mummies she had planned to restore in Atlanta were acquired from a California exhibit by the Carlos Museum. They are among many dozens of mummies sold by the Egyptian government to raise money ...
Some of Egyptian and Sudanese mummies housed in the Museum have been in its collection for 100 years, but even now, thanks to 3D-visualisation technology, the institution is still discovering ...
The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its displayed collections, 200 years after it was first shown. The mummified body ...
The National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh and the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle have decided to avoid using the term "mummy," preferring "mummified remains" or "mummified person" instead.
The American Museum of Natural History is exploring the stories of 18 Egyptian and Peruvian mummies through new CT scanning and recent conservation.
The museum's Egyptian mummy was originally believed to date back to the 18th dynasty, roughly between 1550 and 1295 B.C.E. However, ...
The Gilded Lady, mummified in Roman Egypt, is one of 18 mummies in the museum's exhibit, which includes human and animal mummies from Peru and Egypt. Using the technologies available, ...
Mummies are displayed in the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, on Nov. 1, 2008. In Mexico, the federal archeology agency accused the conservative government of Guanajuato state on May 27, ...
Bridgeport Barnum Museum's 4,000-year-old mummy is not who scholars thought. By Katrina Koerting, Staff writer Updated July 24, 2023 9:34 a.m.
(Museum of the Mummies in Guanajuato, Mexico/KSAT) The bodies of those who died from the disease were interred and placed in above-ground crypts to avoid further spread of the disease.