OneWingedBird
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I dunno, it was fine for thousands of years and now butterfingers makes a hash of it.
That's bonkers! Who did they get in to fix it? Frank Spencer?
I dunno, it was fine for thousands of years and now butterfingers makes a hash of it.
The Fiendish Plot Behind The “Screaming Mummy”
This mummy, frozen in an eternal scream, was the result of a murderous plot carried out over 3,000 years ago.
When archaeologists first discovered the “Screaming Mummy” in June of 1886, they were perplexed. Entombed among the great pharaohs buried in the Deir El Bahri valley, like Rameses the Great, Seti I and Tuthmosis III, this mummy was held in a plain, undecorated cedar coffin that had been crudely hacked open to accommodate the corpse.
When they opened the coffin, the archaeologists were in for a greater shock. The body had been wrapped in sheepskin, a ritually unclean material to the ancient Egyptians.
This Ancient Mummy Is Older Than the Pharaohs
Embalming in ancient Egypt predated the pharaohs, an ancient mummy reveals. That would mean that the practice began at least 1,500 years earlier than once thought.
The mummy — an adult male curled on its left side in a fetal pose — is about 6,000 years old. It was previously thought to be naturally preserved by desert conditions at the site where it was buried. But the first-ever tests performed on the remains showed that the mummy was embalmed, making it the earliest known example of Egyptian mummification, researchers reported in a new study.
Further examination showed that the ancient embalmers used multiple ingredients to preserve the corpse, employing a similar recipe to the ones used 2,500 years later, when mummification in Egypt was at its peak. ...
When we think of mummies, we think of the civilization most closely associated with them - i.e., Egypt.
Recent research persuasively indicates the practice of Egyptian mummification began up to 1500 years earlier than previously believed ...FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/63351-mummy-older-than-pharaohs.html
Well that's the last time I go to an Egyptian restaurant.:dpoo:What surprised me about that was the lack of crocodile dung. Most ancient Egyptian recipes call for it, even contraceptive pessaries.
Well that's the last time I go to an Egyptian restaurant.:dpoo:
Do not read from the book!Getting a mummy to speak? And a mummified priest at that! This will not end well. The script for a horror film is being written!
Scientists have fulfilled a mummified Egyptian priest's wish for life after death - by replicating his voice with artificial vocal chords.
Nesyamun's voice has been reproduced as a vowel-like sound that is reminiscent of a sheep's bleat.The priest lived during the politically volatile reign of pharaoh Ramses XI, between 1099 and 1069BC. As a priest in Thebes, Nesyamun would have needed a strong voice for his ritual duties, which involved singing.
When Nesyamun died, his voice fell silent, but 3,000 years on, a team of researchers have brought it back to life. They have done so by producing a 3D-printed voice box based Nesyamun's vocal tract, which was scanned to establish its precise dimensions. By using the vocal tract with an artificial larynx sound, they synthesised a vowel sound meant to be similar to the voice of Nesyamun.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51223828
(one is clearly of a Roman)
If you want to hear it, it was on Radio 4's Inside Science this eveningNesyamun's voice has been reproduced as a vowel-like sound that is reminiscent of a sheep's bleat.
(Sorry for being a philistine.)
Do not read from the book!
“What we have done is to create the sound of Nesyamun as he is in his sarcophagus,” said the study co-author Prof David Howard, head of the department of electronic engineering at Royal Holloway, University of London. “It is not a sound from his speech as such, as he is not actually speaking.”
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/egypt-mummy-murdered-with-knife.htmlEgyptian mummy cold case closed: 'Takabuti' was stabbed to death
The elite woman also had two rare conditions; an extra tooth and an extra vertebra.
It took 2,600 years to crack the case, but Egyptologists have finally determined how a curly haired, elite woman from ancient Thebes met her untimely end.
The 20-something-year-old Takabuti was murdered in a violent knife attack, researchers announced today (Jan. 27), on the 185th anniversary of the mummy's original unwrapping, in 1835, according to a statement from The University of Manchester in England.
An analysis of Takabuti's mummified remains revealed more of her secrets. She had two rare conditions; an extra tooth (33 instead of 32), and an extra vertebra, the researchers said. ...
The DNA analysis showed that Takabuti was more genetically similar to Europeans than to modern-day Egyptians, the researchers said. ...
The CT scans revealed that her heart, which hadn't been located until now, was intact and perfectly preserved. These scans also disclosed her violent death: Wound marks showed that Takabuti had been stabbed in her upper back, near her left shoulder. ...
https://www.livescience.com/mummies-of-high-priests-in-ancient-egypt.htmlA massive burial ground holding the remains of several high priests of ancient Egypt, along with their assistants, has been discovered in the northern part of the site of Tuna el-Gebel, Egypt's antiquities ministry announced Thursday (Jan. 30).
So far, the archaeologists have unearthed 20 stone sarcophagi (coffins) made of a "very good quality of limestone" in the burial ground, which lies about 170 miles (270 kilometers) south of Cairo, said Mostafa Waziri, the general secretary of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, during a news briefing.
In addition, the burials together contained some 700 amulets, some made of gold or precious stones, along with more than 10,000 shabti figurines made of faience (a glazed ceramic), Waziri said. The ancient Egyptians believed that shabti figurines served the deceased in the afterlife.
A new discovery of mummies and shabti figurines...
Mummies of ancient Egyptian priests found buried with thousands of afterlife 'servants'
https://www.livescience.com/mummies-of-high-priests-in-ancient-egypt.html
SOURCE (With Photos & Link To Video):Mummies discovered in burial shaft in Egypt
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the unearthing of five limestone sarcophagi and four wooden coffins containing human mummies. These incredible archaeological finds were inside a burial shaft stretching nine meters below ground.
This shaft is located in Sacred Animal Necropolis in Saqqara, an ancient burial ground that's about 20 miles south of Cairo and is also home to landmarks including the Step Pyramid, considered to be the world's oldest.
Details of the discovery were shared via a video posted on the ministry's Facebook page earlier this month.
Also excavated from the shaft were an incredible array of small artifacts, including 365 faience ushabti figurines, some inscribed with hieroglyphics. Ushabti are objects, usually small statues, that were buried in Egyptian graves to aid the body in its afterlife. ...
There have been a spate of recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt, following ongoing restoration projects.
On April 24, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities also announced the uncovering of a mummy that dates back to Egypt's 17th dynasty, circa 1550 BCE.
A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission discovered the coffin in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis in Luxor, in the south of Egypt. ...
Yeah, let’s disturb them, what’s the worst that could happen?Another batch of sarcophagi, mummies and ushabti figurines has been discovered in Saqqara and publicized in the last few weeks.
SOURCE (With Photos & Link To Video):
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ancient-egypt-discoveries-saqqara/index.html