• They are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains, having been buried up to two thousand years before the Egyptian mummies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The collection - 25 small wooden mummy caskets adorned with hieroglyphics, along with 75 more boxes filled with wooden and bronze statues of Egyptian deities - could make-up a "museum by itself," El-Enany said Saturday. (nypost.com)
  • Petrie was, nevertheless, the first archaeologist to submit these portraits to academic study, beginning the task of piecing together a unique world in which Egyptian, Greek, and Roman styles and customs began to intertwine from the first century B.C. through to the fourth century A.D. The artistic style seen in the mummy portraits reflected this cultural intermingling and may have influenced later Christian art. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Like the masks that had covered the faces of Egyptian mummies for many centuries before, this one is made of cartonnage, a technique in which linen is stiffened with plaster, sculpted into the form of the deceased's torso and head, and painted. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Cairo hosted the parade as 22 royal mummies were transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, which Egyptians and people all over the world tuned in to watch. (arabnews.com)
  • goes beyond the familiar Egyptian mummies and uncovers the secrets of mummified bodies from around the globe. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • As Los Angeles Times reporter Thomas H. Maugh II reported in 2009, archaeologists found that ancient Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, had hardened artieries - suggesting that disease can stem from causes other than the modern lifestyle. (latimes.com)
  • Friedman says other, later female Egyptian mummies with tattoos had been discovered, and a set of figurines with drawings on them did suggest to Egyptologists that tattoos likely existed at the time for women. (npr.org)
  • In the Middle Ages, Egyptian mummies were prescribed as treatment for myriad conditions. (mentalfloss.com)
  • When Europeans first observed Egyptian mummies, they made note of the black gunk (a combination of oil, fat, resin, beeswax, and bitumen ) covering the preserved bodies. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Mummy parts had become a rarer sight on medicine shelves, but that didn't mean Westerners were over their Egyptian obsession. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Saint Paul, Minn. - New scientific findings once bound in ancient and mummified Egyptian and Peruvian remains will be revealed at the Science Museum of Minnesota when the Mummies: New Secrets from the Tombs exhibition opens on Friday, February 19. (minneapolis.org)
  • Mummies also uses the latest scientific tools and emerging technologies - from medical scanning to advanced reproduction techniques - to look beneath the wrappings at the information the specimens reveal about ancient Peruvian and Egyptian life. (minneapolis.org)
  • Mummies is divided into two main sections: one that explores mummies from Peru, where mummification practices predate those of Egypt by 2,000 years, and one that explores Egyptian mummies, which have captured our imaginations for decades thanks to the attention popular culture has paid to King Tut and the elaborate and luxurious tombs of other ancient royalty. (minneapolis.org)
  • Evidence of vertebral osteomyelitis has been found in Egyptian mummies. (medscape.com)
  • The finding of smallpox-like rashes on Egyptian mummies suggests that smallpox has existed for at least 3,000 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Dead female worms have also been found in Egyptian mummies older than 3000 years, and writings in ancient Sanskrit, Greek, and Hebrew refer to Dracunculus infection. (medscape.com)
  • We can now establish that Winstrup's mummy is one of the most well-preserved bodies from 17th century Europe with an information potential well in line with Ötzi the Iceman or Egyptian mummies. (lu.se)
  • The earliest mummy that has been found in Egypt dated around 3000 BCE, while the oldest anthropogenically modified Chinchorro mummy dates from around 5050 BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a rare mummy menagerie, including the wrapped remains of cats, crocodiles, scarabs, cobras and two lion cubs. (nypost.com)
  • A wealth of new discoveries, from animal mummies linked to the jackal god and human remains to an enigmatic statue, are revealing the secrets of an ancient holy place in Egypt once known as the "Terrace of the Great God. (livescience.com)
  • Petrie was not the first Westerner to have come across the painted mummy panels of Egypt. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • It's also worth noting that these mummies were not intentionally preserved, like later mummies in ancient Egypt. (npr.org)
  • Wikimedia Commons When you think about mummies, the first place that springs to mind is Egypt. (hammerfilms.com)
  • Mummies features real mummies and coffins, including one of the oldest mummies in the world, from Pre-Dynastic Egypt to Pre-Incan Peru. (minneapolis.org)
  • It's been a pathogen for thousands of years, it's even implicated in the deaths of mummies in Egypt. (cdc.gov)
  • In excavated mummies, archaeologists found skin and all soft tissues and organs, including the brain, removed from the corpse. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the early 17th century the Italian traveler Pietro della Valle saw lifelike mummy art when he passed through the necropolis of Saqqara just south of the modern-day city of Cairo. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The most popular videos have been around for a couple of years, but still show incredible findings and research about, for example, the mummy of a 17th century bishop, the world's fastest camera and a walk through a house from Pompeii. (lu.se)
  • One of Europe's most well-preserved 17th century mummies was discovered in Lund, Sweden. (lu.se)
  • In mind-blowing IMAX® detail, unravel the enshrouded human time capsules that have become the most fascinating mystery of our time - Egypt's mummies. (putnam.org)
  • The two well-preserved mummies from Egypt's Gebelein site - a male and a female - have been in the British Museum's collection for more than 100 years. (npr.org)
  • The Chinchorro mummies are mummified remains of individuals from the South American Chinchorro culture, found in what is now northern Chile. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since 1914, when Max Uhle began his work in Arica, an estimated 282 mummies have been found by archaeologists. (wikipedia.org)
  • In her final report of the evening, Linda discussed Caucasian mummies found in China which will be exhibited at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California later this year. (coasttocoastam.com)
  • What makes the mummies particularly mysterious is that they are fair skinned, fair haired, and, in some cases, are found adorned in plaids and tartans, leading to the misconception that they are Celtic. (coasttocoastam.com)
  • More on the story, including images of the mummies, can be found at Earthfiles.com . (coasttocoastam.com)
  • Well then Oetzi, the famous, 5,300 year old frozen mummy found in the Alps nearly two decades ago, has got you beat. (popsci.com)
  • An archaeologist works at the pre-Inca religious complex 'Huaca Pucllana', in the residential district of Miraflores, in Lima, on Oct 24, 2013 - day in which archaeologist Gladys Paz informed that two pre-Columbian mummies of over a thousand years old, an adult and a child, were found at the site. (straitstimes.com)
  • nbsp;Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima, archeologists said on Thursday. (straitstimes.com)
  • The first signs of the tomb were found five days ago, but the process of unearthing the mummies of an adult and child took time. (straitstimes.com)
  • In 2008, the mummy of a 13-year-old girl was found. (straitstimes.com)
  • The two recent mummies remain unopened in the place where they were found. (straitstimes.com)
  • Mitchell noted that many of the mummies, found in the 1980s, had no problems until 10 years ago, "when they started to deteriorate. (ticotimes.net)
  • New technologies have uncovered fresh facts about old favorites, such as Ötzi the Ice Man found in the Alps, and recent findings have unearthed mummies rarely discussed before, like the Orlovits family of Vác, Hungary, laid to rest in a forgotten church crypt. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • A team of French and Russian researchers recently found new snippets of smallpox DNA in 300-year-old mummies from Siberia, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine released Wednesday. (latimes.com)
  • the mummies found coated in black resin and shipped to European apothecaries were almost always peasants and never royalty. (mentalfloss.com)
  • He was found on top of a stack of three female mummies and another young boy, all of them preserved by the icy climate. (hammerfilms.com)
  • Another three female mummies were found nearby. (hammerfilms.com)
  • His book "Beyond Death: The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile" was published by the Smithsonian and also translated into Spanish. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is one of the most important finds in more than three decades of excavation, because both mummies are intact," Ms Gladys Paz told AFP at the foot of the Huaca Pucllana tomb, an ancient religious complex in the Miraflores neighborhood. (straitstimes.com)
  • So Mitchell and two Harvard colleagues collaborated with Sepulveda and one of her colleagues to try to figure out what was going on - whether indeed, climatic changes were the reason for mummy decay - and what that would mean for better preserving these unique, ancient objects. (ticotimes.net)
  • What makes the Mummies exhibition really unique is the juxtaposition of these ancient specimens with the modern technology that allows us to decode them and get a glimpse of what life may have been like in these amazing ancient societies. (minneapolis.org)
  • Mummies presents these ancient findings through the use of CT scans, 3D printed casts of bones and burial figurines, forensically reconstructed sculptural busts by artist Élisabeth Daynès, and interactive touch tables that invite visitors to digitally unwrap mummies to explore what lies beneath the wrappings. (minneapolis.org)
  • Ancient mummies do not move and are not sensitive to radiation, so CT scans worked well, he explained. (medscape.com)
  • The mummies continued to be made until about 1800 BCE, making them contemporary with Las Vegas culture and Valdivia culture in Ecuador and the Norte Chico civilization in Peru. (wikipedia.org)
  • In fact, the mummies of Chauchilla in Peru were placed in a sitting position after death, facing towards the rising sun. (hammerfilms.com)
  • 29% of known Chinchorro mummies were mummified naturally. (wikipedia.org)
  • The artificial mummies of Chinchorro are believed to have first appeared around 5000 BCE and reached a peak around 3000 BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • Often Chinchorro mummies were elaborately prepared by removing the internal organs and replacing them with vegetable fibers or animal hair. (wikipedia.org)
  • Radiocarbon dating reveals that the oldest discovered anthropogenically modified Chinchorro mummy was that of a child from a site in the Camarones Valley, about 60 miles (97 km) south of Arica in Chile and dates from around 5050 BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1994, Arriaza created a classification of the Chinchorro mummies that is widely used. (wikipedia.org)
  • Whereas the Egyptians considered only kings and other exalted citizens worthy of mummification, the Chinchorro accorded everyone in the community, regardless of age or status, this sacred rite," wrote Bernardo Arriaza, an expert on the mummies, which were first discovered in the Atacama desert in 1917. (ticotimes.net)
  • The saga of the Chinchorro mummies illustrates just how vulnerable many irreplaceable cultural artifacts and world heritage sites may be to a changing climate (human caused or otherwise). (ticotimes.net)
  • 4,000- to 5,000-year-old Chinchorro Chilean mummies (8). (cdc.gov)
  • By examining the mummy of bishop Peder Winstrup, researchers at Lund University shed some light on the medical and historical mysteries of everyday life in the 1600s. (lu.se)
  • The mummy of Peder Winstrup is one of the most well-preserved bodies from the 1600s. (lu.se)
  • Wikimedia Commons The mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico are some of the strangest - and possibly most horrific - in the world. (hammerfilms.com)
  • A new project, generously funded by the Perucca Family Foundation, is underway to study and conserve the mummy along with the decorative elements that protected it for millennia, ensuring this individual's survival in the afterlife. (artic.edu)
  • The specimens appear alongside archaeological treasures such as stone sarcophagi fragments, mummified heads and trophy skulls, animal mummies, and pots to bring food and beer into the afterlife. (minneapolis.org)
  • Visitors will learn the individual stories of the mummies contained within the exhibition, and they will compare and contrast their societies' responses to death, burial, and the afterlife. (minneapolis.org)
  • This may not be a change that can be definitively pinned on global climate change caused by humans, cautioned Ralph Mitchell, a Harvard microbiologist who teamed up with the Chilean researchers to figure out what was ailing the mummies. (ticotimes.net)
  • One of the dog skulls, with some of the mummy wrapping still on it. (livescience.com)
  • They were also easier to come by than genuine mummies from Cairo. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Packed tightly into one of the chambers, the team discovered a cache of at least 83 animal mummies , which dates back more than 2,000 years. (livescience.com)
  • In the 1932 film, a magic scroll brings the mummy back to life and he searches for his love who he believes has been reincarnated into the body of a living woman. (80stees.com)
  • Uhle categorized the types of mummification he saw into three categories: simple treatment, complex treatment, and mud-coated mummies. (wikipedia.org)
  • This fascinating book explores the variety of ways that mummification can occur and tells the stories of famous and lesser-known mummies, including the Altai Princess, Otzi the Iceman, Incan child mummies, and modern preserved bodies like Vladimir Lenin's and Eva Perón's. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The culture and even the appearance of the earliest settlers-locked in uncannily preserved mummies-are not Chinese at all, but Caucasoid. (nybooks.com)
  • Several thousands of years before the Egyptians, they were mummifying their dead - creating the oldest known mummies on Earth - and doing so in a truly equal fashion. (ticotimes.net)
  • Tissue samples from the lungs of mummy 2, a female adult determined to be less than 23 years old, had "iron inclusions" typical of blood from a hemorrhagic episode, the team reported. (latimes.com)
  • In fact, over time the mummy and coffin became so intertwined that the mummy was mistakenly called Wenuhotep for many years. (artic.edu)
  • Oxford professor Renee Friedman had been using a handheld infrared camera to examine tattoos on mummies from about 1,000 years later, in the Middle Kingdom period. (npr.org)
  • She spoke with Victor Mair, a professor of Chinese Literature and Language, who stumbled upon the mummies inside of a museum in China and originally believed they were a hoax. (coasttocoastam.com)
  • Here, the PBS show "Secrets of the Pharoahs" provides more information about extracting and studying DNA from mummies . (latimes.com)
  • Read them all to uncover the creepy and true histories of mummies, ghosts, skeletons, and more! (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Wikimedia Commons It's the extent of the preservation that makes this mummy so creepy. (hammerfilms.com)
  • Previously removed from the mummy, they include a mask, a foot cover, and two panels-one covering the torso and the other the legs-decorated with funerary scenes and divine images. (artic.edu)
  • The mummies may have served as a means of assisting the soul in surviving, and to prevent the bodies from frightening the living. (wikipedia.org)
  • They began seeking out mummies not just for the pitch-like coating on the bodies, but for the centuries-old flesh itself. (mentalfloss.com)
  • It seemed that most of the burials were individual and involved only one body, but one grave contained five frozen mummies - two children and three adults - which appeared to have been buried shortly after death. (latimes.com)
  • The most atmospheric of the mummy movies, with a real feeling of decay and dread. (badmovies.org)
  • One of the most moving sections of the Peruvian section of Mummies features the virtual "unwrapping" of a mummy bundle that reveals both a woman and her baby, both of whom likely died in childbirth. (minneapolis.org)
  • We closely examine the mummy in the conservation lab and determine a suitable course of action. (artic.edu)
  • And one famous archaeological discovery is this mummy, the Siberian Ice Maiden, better known as the Ukok Princess. (hammerfilms.com)
  • The mummy was prominently displayed for decades-first at the Art Institute and later at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis-inside a wooden coffin inscribed for a woman named Wenuhotep . (artic.edu)
  • And since that time, there has never been anything better with a mummy in it. (badmovies.org)
  • Meanwhile, through what appears to be a discontinuity between the two films, the mummy is back again, this time to storm over Massachusetts, killing the survivors of the previous film. (rinkworks.com)
  • Collect the specific Runes of each Mummy and arrive with all of them, at the same time, to their respective Totems and then open the door and move to the next chamber of the pyramid. (nintendo.com)
  • Mummies will provide a rare glimpse at the preeminent collection of mummies from the world-renowned Field Museum in Chicago, which is traveling beyond the museum's vault for the first time ever. (minneapolis.org)
  • It follows three mummies as they end up in present-day London and embark on a journey in search of an old ring belonging to the Royal Family, stolen by the ambitious archaeologist Lord Carnaby. (boxofficemojo.com)
  • When you search and book a hotel with Hotwire, you can compare prices, amenities, proximity to Mummies Museum, and more. (hotwire.com)
  • The archaeologists discovered the llama mummies buried beneath clay floors in two of the several buildings that surround the two plazas at the site. (livescience.com)
  • Mair explained that DNA testing has shown the ancestry of the mummies is from Europe on the male side and China on the female side. (coasttocoastam.com)
  • Infrared imaging of a female predynastic mummy reveal a tattooed "S" pattern and a marking that Egyptologists believe shows an item used in rituals. (npr.org)
  • Control the group of Mummies together as you navigate holes, crumbling floors, spears that come out of the ground, and more! (nintendo.com)
  • Mummy books cram the shelves, but this one won't stay buried for long. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Life-size photos now replace the original artifacts that have been sent back to China, and wooden replicas (constructed by the museum's modeler) mimic its vanished mummies. (nybooks.com)
  • Gold leaf and intricate details give life to the Al Fayyum mummy portrait of a teenage boy on display at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. (nationalgeographic.com)
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  • According to the Museum Annual Report for 1903 Henry Ogg Forbes, gave a lecture and unwrapped a mummy: "At the lecture of the 30th, the mummy of a lady named Auf-aa of the XXVI. (liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)
  • Shortly after that work, she was coordinating a project at the British Museum, home to these mummies, which had been excavated and brought to the U.K. in 1899. (npr.org)
  • A compromise has been reached and the mummy will now be returned to the Altai, albeit to a museum where she will continue to be studied. (hammerfilms.com)
  • Dr Werner started out using CT scans to make 3D prints of mummies for the Museum of Rio de Janeiro. (medscape.com)
  • The big news is that we are putting the knowledge of the iceman into a wider context," said Klaus Oeggl, professor of archeobotany at the University of Innsbruck in Germany, "Up to now, everything was focused on the mummy and the situation at the top of the mountain. (popsci.com)
  • I want to get the latest chemistry news from C&EN in my inbox every week. (acs.org)
  • When inventory dwindled, apothecaries started supplementing mummies with products made from fresh human meat, further removing mumia from its etymology. (mentalfloss.com)
  • In the summer of 1893, a mummy entered the Art Institute's collection. (artic.edu)
  • They thought it resembled mumia , so they named the corpses mummies after the material. (mentalfloss.com)