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Mummy's the Word
Friday, September 14, 2007
In preparation for a major touring exhibition opening in 2008, the Brooklyn Museum of Art is using new scientific technologies to analyze the five human and 50 animal mummies in its collection. Curator Ed Bleiberg will explain what CT scans, X-ray fluorescence, and GC Mass Spec have revealed about these millennia-old treasures.
Visit brooklynmuseum.org for more information.
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When I think of a mummy, I imagine a wrinkly brown dried out corpse.
At the time... say fifty years after mummification, did these remains still maintain the look of living creatures?
It must take several hundred years for a body to get all brown and wrinkly.
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