Submitted by Sean Williams on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:38
The oldest museum in the world reopens its doors tomorrow, after a mammoth five-year revamp. Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has enjoyed a £61million cash injection into its ageing building, recasting all but its Victorian Cockerell building facade. Rick Mather's new creation allows the museum's myriad treasures much more space, adding 39 galleries and 10,000sq metres of exhibition space.
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
