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Under the Bandage: Up Close with an Egyptian Mummy
Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum, was just re-examined by researchers.
- The head of a ancient mummy sits on a table after being removed from a Egyptian casket. It was packaged for shipping at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Conn., which sent it to Quinnipiac Univ. for diagnostic imaging at the Biaonthropology Research Institute. Previous tests led to speculation that the packet was a bird mummy -- something researchers said would be an unusual and exciting find -- but high-resolution tests showed no remnants of a bird. Instead, researchers said the packet and a few others in the mummy likely contained organs, which were sometimes preserved and placed back in mummies for use in the afterlife. More.read moreAP Photo/Douglas HealeyShare
- Quinnipiac University Professors Gerald Conlogue and Ronald Beckett hold the head of a mummy along with Kathy Maher, the executive director and curator for the Barnum Museum, at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Conn. The mummy is being packaged and shipped to Quinnipiac Univ.read moreAP Photo/Douglas HealeyShare
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Under the Bandage: Up Close with an Egyptian Mummy
Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum, was just re-examined by researchers.
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