Then the skin was painted with manganese--giving the
mummy a black color.
The book opens with a fascinating account of the discovery of the
mummy portraits and their reception in scholarly and popular realms.
During an "off-the-record" bull session with reporters later that day, White House press secretary Mike McCurry topped Clinton's gag with one of his own: "Probably she does look good compared to the
mummy he's been [having sex with].
When President Clinton viewed the
mummy, he Elvissed that she was a pretty little thing, and he might have liked to date her.
The
mummy room has been completely overhauled and partitioned off from the rest of the museum.
To unravel some of that mystery, researchers put the
mummy through a day-long X-ray scattering experiment at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, using the synchrotron at the facility.
YUMMY
MUMMY BRITISH actress Valerie Leon played a dual role in Hammer Horror's 1971 film, Blood From the
Mummy's Tomb, appearing as both Margaret Fuchs and the evil
mummy of Egyptian Queen Tera, who possesses her.
Daniel
Mummy takes me to the shops to buy sweeties.
Jaipur, Mar 8(ANI): A three-member team from Egypt on Tuesday re-preserved a 2,300 old Egyptian
mummy in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
A 4000-YEAR-OLD Chinese
mummy has been claimed as a Scot - because of its red hair and kilt-like dress.
The exhibition is designed to transport onlookers back to the Egyptian tombs of Akhmim and the funerary tables and labs of ancient mortuaries; through the discovery of mummies by Western explorers and the ensuing "unrolling" soirees of the 19th century; to current-day
mummy research, including reconstruction of mummies' facial features in sculptural busts and digitizing mummies' body cavities using scanning technology from radiology labs.
When she was 4 years old, she saw a
mummy in a Springfield museum, a chance encounter that launched a lifelong fascination with mummies.
Summary: <p>Scientists trying to unwrap the mysteries of a more than 2,500-year-old
mummy believed to be an ancient Egyptian priest have conducted computer scans to help determine how the man died, what was buried with him and what he looked like.
Archaeologists have long questioned how an unidentified man entombed in a 1,700-year-old
mummy at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery met his death.
