The Egyptian Mummies And Coffins Of The Denver Museum Of Nature Science

Author : Michele L. Koons,Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646421381

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The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science by Michele L. Koons,Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod Pdf

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science acquired two ancient Egyptian mummies and three coffins. The mummies are the remains of two women who lived in an unknown locale in ancient Egypt. They both died in their thirties and have now been subjected to a number of unpublished scientific and unscientific analyses over the years. In 2016, as DMNS prepared to update its Egyptian Hall, staff scientists decided to reexamine the mummies and coffins using innovative, inexpensive, and accessible techniques. This interdisciplinary volume provides a history of the mummies’ discovery and relocation to Colorado. It guides the reader through various analytical techniques, detailing past research and introducing new data and best practices for future conservation efforts. The new analysis includes more accurate radiocarbon dating, fully comprehensive data from updated CT scans, examples of Egyptian blue and yellow pigments on the coffins uncovered by non-invasive x-ray fluorescence, unprecedented analysis of the coffin wood, updated translations and stylistic analysis of the text and imagery on the coffins, gas chromatography of the paints and resins, linen analysis, and much more. The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science provides replicable findings and consistent terminology for institutions performing holistic studies on extant museum collections of a range of material types. It will add substantially to what we know about the effective conservation of Egyptian mummies and coffins. Contributors: Christopher H. Baisan, Hans Barnard, Bonnie Clark, Pearce Paul Creasman, Farrah Cundiff, Jessica M. Fletcher, Kari L. Hayes, Kathryn Howley, Stephen Humphries, Keith Miller, Vanessa Muros, Robyn Price, David Rubinstein, Judith Southward, Jason Weinman

Author : Edith Whitney Watts,Barry Girsh
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 9780870998539

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Art of Ancient Egypt by Edith Whitney Watts,Barry Girsh Pdf

"[A] comprehensive resource, which contains texts, posters, slides, and other materials about outstanding works of Egyptian art from the Museum's collection"--Welcome (preliminary page).

Author : Charles Fort
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783849641788

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The Book Of The Damned by Charles Fort Pdf

"The Book of the Damned" reminds one of Harnack's characterization of the Gnostic work "Pistis Sophia" as "dedicated to the propaganda of systematic idiocy." Mr. Charles Fort, with a zeal worthy of a scientist, has spent a life-time collecting newspaper stories of bodies that have fallen from the sky, such as hailstones as big as elephants, red, black, and green rains, butter, calves, putrid substances, and the like. He admits that observers have sometimes tried to explain these phenomena on known laws, as when Dr. Hitchcock examined a putrid substance alleged to have fallen from the sky at Amherst, and declared it to be a fungus, but Mr. Fort knows that the things dropped from the sky are messages from another world. He presents evidence that has hitherto been ignored or distorted by scientists pointing to the proof of life in other planets and of communication between them and this earth.

Author : Martha Demas,Neville Agnew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1937433390

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Valley of the Queens Assessment Report by Martha Demas,Neville Agnew Pdf

The Valley of the Queens Project is a collaboration of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Getty Conservation Institute from 2006-2011. The project involved comprehensive research, planning and assessment culminating in the development of detailed plans for conservation and management of the site. Volume 2 of the report is the condition summary of the 111 tombs from the 18th,19th, and 20th Dynasties in the Valley of the Queens. This includes a summary of tomb architectural development, the geological and hydrological context, wall painting technique and condition assessment of the paintings and structural stability of the tombs.

Author : O'Connor,David P Silverman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004676701

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Ancient Egyptian Kingship by O'Connor,David P Silverman Pdf

This well-illustrated volume represents an extensive analysis of kingship in ancient Egypt. Each of the six contributing authors investigates particular areas of his own expertise. Among the topics covered are the origin of kingship, its distinctive traits and its general nature, and its reflection in royal art and architecture.

Author : Alice Stevenson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787351424

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Scattered Finds by Alice Stevenson Pdf

Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient Egypt's first rulers at Abydos, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s city of Tell el-Amarna and rich Roman Era burials in the Fayum. Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post-independence Ghana. By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century, Alice Stevenson presents new ideas about the development of archaeology, museums and the construction of Egyptian heritage. She also addresses the legacy of these practices, raises questions about the nature of the authority over such heritage today, and argues for a stronger ethical commitment to its stewardship. Praise for Scattered Finds 'Scattered Finds is a remarkable achievement. In charting how British excavations in Egypt dispersed artefacts around the globe, at an unprecedented scale, Alice Stevenson shows us how ancient objects created knowledge about the past while firmly anchored in the present. No one who reads this timely book will be able to look at an Egyptian antiquity in the same way again.' Professor Christina Riggs, UEA

Author : Jeremy Katz, Foreword by
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467105859

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Jewish Community of Atlanta, The by Jeremy Katz, Foreword by Pdf

As Atlanta evolved from a sleepy, backwater, 19th-century frontier railroad town into a 21st-century international metropolis, Jewish men and women significantly contributed to the rich tapestry of the "Gate City of the South." The commercial infrastructure of the expanding city was greatly enhanced through numerous small businesses established by Jewish merchants, some of which became major players in various industries. Many of Atlanta's most recognizable icons--The Coca-Cola Company, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Atlanta Braves--originated, in part, thanks to support from visionary leaders in the Jewish community. While there are many success stories throughout Atlanta's Jewish history, there are also dark episodes of blatant antisemitism that traumatized the community and had national implications. The lynching of Leo M. Frank; the bombing of the city's historic synagogue, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation; and the deliberate expulsion of Jewish students from Emory University Dental School marred Atlanta's self-proclaimed reputation as "The City Too Busy to Hate."

Author : Leigh North
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664189295

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The Predecessors of Cleopatra by Leigh North Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Egyptian Queens collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Black Hand The Queen Mertytefs Nitocris Sebek-Nefru-Ra Aah-Hotep Aahmes-Nefertari Hatshepsut Maut-a-mua Tyi Nefertiti Tuaa Nofutari-Minimut Ur-Maa-Nofur-Ra Tausert Persian Queens Roxane Ptolemy Queens Arsinoe II Cleopatra VI

Author : Albert John Nunnamaker,Charles Otto Dhonau
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547021247

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Anatomy and Embalming by Albert John Nunnamaker,Charles Otto Dhonau Pdf

Anatomy and Embalming is a scientific tome by Charles Otto Dhonau. In this in-depth treatise on the science and art of embalming, the author presents the successful methodologies and knowledge of anatomy required for the subject.

Author : Jean-Nicolas Gannal
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040853892

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History of Embalming by Jean-Nicolas Gannal Pdf

Author : Angela Stienne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526161901

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Mummified by Angela Stienne Pdf

Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. This book takes you on a journey from Paris to London, Leicester and Manchester, from the apothecaries of the Middle Ages to the dissecting tables of the eighteenth century, and finally behind the screen of today’s computers, to revisit the stories of these bodies that have fascinated Europeans for so long. Mummified investigates matters of life and death, of collecting and viewing, and of interactions – sometimes violent and sometimes emotional – that question the essence of what makes us human.

Author : Neal Spencer,Anna Stevens,Michaela Binder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Amara West Site (Sudan).
ISBN : 0714191256

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Amara West by Neal Spencer,Anna Stevens,Michaela Binder Pdf

"In 1300 BC, pharaonic Egypt created a new town on the windswept banks of the Nile in Northern Sudan: Amara West. Designed as a centre for the control of occupied Upper Nubia, the town flourished for 200 years. An interdisciplinary research project, led by the British Museum, has been working at the site since 2008. What was it like to live in Egyptian Nubia? What things did the inhabitants make and how did they interact with the spiritual world? How was food prepared and how healthy were the inhabitants? How did the town change over two centuries of occupation? What role did Nubian culture play in this apparently Egyptian town? Why was the town abandoned? This book offers a glimpse of the intricacies of everyday life under empire in Egyptian Nubia."-- back cover.

Author : Peter Lacovara,Sue H. D’Auria
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438469485

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The Mystery of the Albany Mummies by Peter Lacovara,Sue H. D’Auria Pdf

From the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies joined an American museum collection. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and best remembered of the museum’s collections. The story of their discovery in the tombs at Deir el-Bahri and their subsequent purchase by Brown, transport by steamship from Cairo to New York City, and steamboat travel to Albany was covered extensively by the Albany newspapers, and visitors from school-aged children to senior citizens often recount stories about their first encounter with the Albany mummies. The Mystery of the Albany Mummies tells the fascinating tale of these two mummies, from their initial mummification in ancient Egypt, to their acquisition by the AIHA in 1909, and finally to 2013, when the mystery of their identities was uncovered through the intersection of historical scholarship, science, and technology. In the book, which draws on the Institute’s 2013–2014 exhibition “GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany Mummies,” scholars from around the world use new scholarship, scientific methods, and medical technology to determine the ages, sexes, occupations, and lifestyles of these two ancient denizens of the AIHA. “A delightful and engaging tale about the final voyage of an Egyptian mummy, now housed in the AIHA. The inclusion of the highlights of the Albany museum’s Egyptian collection, which are lavishly illustrated, and the accompanying essays provide a wonderful exploration of the history of collecting, and the links between Egypt and America on economic, sociocultural, and mystical levels. A feast for both the eyes and the mind!” — Salima Ikram, author of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction “The Mystery of the Albany Mummies is a lively and authoritative account of a journey of scientific discovery. The two Egyptian mummies and their coffins in the AIHA have been a source of fascination to visitors ever since they were brought from Cairo in 1909, but, as this book explains, it is only in the last decade that they have yielded up their most intriguing secrets. Illustrated with a range of artifacts from the Albany collection, the text reconstructs the vanished world in which these individuals lived over two thousand years ago. It is an object-lesson in presenting accurate and specialized knowledge to a wide audience in an attractive and accessible way.” — John H. Taylor, Assistant Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum “A must read for scholars, history buffs, and museum-lovers alike, the story of the Albany mummies is a case study in how the intersection of scholarship and technology can provide us with a glimpse into the ancient past.” — Kara M. Cooney, author of The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Author : Lorenc Bejko,Sarah P. Morris,John K. Papadopoulos,Lynne A. Schepartz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770524

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The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkend, Albania by Lorenc Bejko,Sarah P. Morris,John K. Papadopoulos,Lynne A. Schepartz Pdf

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancient "Illyria"), home to a number of burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages of later prehistory. Some were robbed long ago, others were reused for modern burials; few were excavated under scientific conditions. Modern understanding of the pre- and protohistory of Illyria has largely been shaped by the contents of such burial mounds. What inspired the systematic exploration of Lofkend by UCLA was more than the promise of an unplundered necropolis; it was also a chance to revisit the significance of this tumulus and its fellows for the emergence of urbanism and complexity in ancient Illyria. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1582 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : California
ISBN : UIUC:30112002526561

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Sunset by Anonim Pdf