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Home / Science / Social Sciences / Archaeology / Periods and Cultures / Ancient Egypt / Mummies
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- Ancient Mayor's Tomb, 102 Mummies Found in Egypt - The tomb of Gad Khensu Eyuf discovered.
abcnews.go.com/sections/science/dailyNews/egyptmayor000523.html
- Animal Mummies in the Cairo Museum - Help preserve and study animal mummies from ancient Egypt with the Adopt-A-Mummy Project.
www.animalmummies.com
- Cyber Mummy - A mummy from the University of Illinois reveals its past through modern computer imaging.
www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/cybermummy
- Discovery of the Valley of the Mummies - Dr. Zahi Hawass describes the discovery of the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis, rediscovery of three tombs, discovering the Golden Mummies, and current and future excavations.
www.uk.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/history/hawass/front.htm
- Egyptian Mummies - Information about mummies for readers, writers, and learners of all ages.
www.mummytombs.com
- Faces of Djed - Lengthy, illustrated article by Lee-Anne Jack about CT scans of a mummy in the Royal Ontario Museum and what they revealed, with bibliography.
www.rom.on.ca/egypt/djed/djedmaat.html
- Howstuffworks: How Mummies Work - Photographs show how and why mummies were preserved, and how X-ray radiography and CAT scanning technology were used to examine the mummy without having to remove its bandages.
www.howstuffworks.com/mummy.htm
- Oasis of the Dead - Roman-era tombs southwest of Cairo yield scores of gilded mummies.
www.archaeology.org/9909/etc/oasis.html
- Queen Nefertiti's Portrait as an Elder Woman - The Times reports that the mummy found in 1898 called the 'Elder Woman' bears a striking resemblance to sculpted portraits of Nefertiti, according to Dr Susan James.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001191217,00.html
- The Royal Theban Mummy Project - William Max Miller aims to present archeological data about New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period royal mummies from the Theban cache tombs in an accessible way.
members.tripod.com/anubis4_2000/mummypages1/intro.htm
- The Virtual Mummy - Computer-generated images of the interior of an ancient Egyptian mummy.
www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/institute/imdm/idv/forschung/mumie/index.en.html
- Ti Ameny Net - An ancient Egyptian mummy displayed at the Ancient World Gallery in North Court at the University of Richmond in Virginia: CT scans, x-rays, and analyses.
www.richmond.edu/academics/a&s/classics/TiAmenyNet
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