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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 ...
Find the complete program transcript, including credits, for the NOVA program The Mummy Who Would Be King originally broadcast on PBS on January 3, 2006.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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.