Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Cat mummy x-ray, Brooklyn Museum CC BY-NC-ND
The Brooklyn Museum has an update on the musuem’s animal mummy research project.
In the video Lisa Bruno, head conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses the nature of many of the animal mummies in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. She begins her presentation, however, with the scanning of [...]

Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr and Twitter.
Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum’s technology geek, delivered a running commentary with photos as [...]

Tomorrow morning the Brooklyn Museum will be taking their four ancient Egyptian mummies to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset to undergo CT scanning. One of the four mummies is former royal prince of Thebes, Pasebakhaienipet, another is simply referred to as the “mystery mummy”. The aim of the scanning is to help learn [...]

Four ushabti boxes, three canopic jars, and four sarcophagi were discovered
Archaeologist from Japanese Waseda University have made another important discovery at Saqqara. Just two weeks ago over 30 mummies thought to belong to the Fifth Dynasty were discovered in an underground tomb just south of the pyramid of Unas.
This time the find involves [...]

One of the wooden sarcophagi
Some of the sarcophagi inside the newly discovered tomb at Saqqara have been opened.
Yesterday international media were allowed into the tomb to film the opening.
Inside the chamber, 22 mummies lay covered only by sand in four niches dug into the chamber’s walls. Most were badly decomposed, showing only skulls and parts [...]

Hawass in the newly discovered tomb. Photo AP
Breaking in the news today is that over 30 Egyptian Mummies have been discovered in a single tomb at Saqqara.
The burial vault, which Zahi Hawass has referred to as “Mummy Prison” or a “Storeroom for Mummies”, is located south-west of the step pyramid of Djoser. This location [...]

In the previous post, Biomedical Egyptology, we saw how the team at the University of Manchester are using multidisciplinary, investigative methods using tissue and hair samples of ancient Egyptian Mummies to scientifically analyse and understand ancient Egyptian pharmacy and pharmacology.

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In their book Egyptian Mummies and [...]