Professor Salima Ikram is one of the world's leading authorities on animals in Ancient Egypt, and has published several books about the culture, which she has loved since childhood. Dr Ikram currently holds the post of Professor of Egyptology at Cairo's American University, and frequently appears in magazines and on television to discuss Egypt. She is also a grantee of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1965, Dr Ikram studies Egyptology and Archaeology at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College. She then earned a M.Phil. and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Cambridge.
The Brooklyn Museum holds 7 human and over 60 animal mummies in their collection. We know already quite a lot about their human mummies, but now Lisa Bruno tells us more about the animal mummy research project at the Museum in an informal presentation for the Museum's '1stfans'. The Brooklyn Museum's conservator Lisa Bruno talks about what an object conservator exactly is (and how to become one), the travelling exhibition 'To Live Forever' which is coming to the Brooklyn Museum February 2010 and the research the Getty Institute did on the 'red mummy' Demetrios - once thought to be a female.
Submitted by Mary Harrsch on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 11:06
A new state-of-the-art animation entitled The Mummification Process features a digital reconstruction of a 20-year-old man from the Greco-Roman period of Egypt. The animation, produced by the J. Paul Getty Museum, illustrates each step in the process from the removal of the organs (displayed as virtually disappearing without the hook through the nose procedure that some squeamish visitors may find upsetting) to the application of the distinctive red pigment to the cartonnage outer wrapping.
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Most of the mummies you get in the end [Greco-Roman Period] are not even Egyptians
