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The mummy that lies in cool repose in the Michael C. Carlos Museum is an international man of mystery who recently has revealed remarkable secrets more than 4,000 years old while holding onto ...
In Atlanta, the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University displays some of the 10 coffins and nine mummies it purchased from Canada’s Niagara Falls Museum, which began exhibiting Egyptian ...
At the Carlos Museum, they use a vacuum backpack to remove dust but are careful not to get the vacuum’s nozzle too close to the item. It’s a little more complicated with the mummies ...
According to the museum’s October 24 announcement, a mobile CT scanner helped to finally explain the strategy behind Chenet-aa’s “locked-mummy” cartonnage, as well as new physical ...
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University announced earlier this week what some Egyptologists had long suspected: The mummified corpse is indeed that of Ramses I, who took the throne in ...
Mummies are displayed in the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2008. Daniel Jayo / AP What appears to be at the root of the latest dispute is a turf battle ...
Spain’s Ministry of Culture has ordered a Madrid museum to remove a mummy from view as part of a government policy to ...
They are among the most popular exhibits in museums worldwide, with a name so resonant, blockbuster films have been built on it. But some museums in Britain are now using words other than “mummy ...
After the British Museum said it was rethinking its use of the word ‘mummy,’ “the conversation quickly turned into an argument about going “woke” instead of centering on the real issue ...
This mummy of an "upper-class Egyptian male" is displayed at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 6, 2015.Sam McManis /McClatchy-Tribune News Service The re-creation of a ...
The Cox mummy’s journey to the Smithsonian began in Luxor, across the Nile from the Valley of the Kings, a place of powerful symbolic importance where pharaohs such as Tutankhamen were entombed.