Materials Peruvian Mummies (PBS.org - NOVA) Papers CT Scans Reveal Ancient Egyptian Mummies' Secrets (CNN News) "Inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion. Another body -- a prince no less -- is a few rooms down in a computer tomography scanner." "The bodies are part of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 11 Egyptian mummies, transported to the North Shore University Hospital to be scanned. The goal: Find out who they are, how they might have died and establish a chronology of advances in ancient Egypt's mummification techniques." 06-09 Chinchorro Mummies Believed to be 8000 Years Old "Various excavations of mummies (referred to as the Chinchorro) in Chile have brought scientists to believe that methods of highly complex mummification existed prior to that of the ancient Egyptians." Egyptian Mummies (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) "The mummies from the Deir el-Bahri cache were removed to the Cairo Museum in 1881, and most, but not all, of the mummies found in the tomb of Amenhotep II were brought to Cairo after their discovery." Projects Making a Mummy (CostumeSuperCenter.com) "Mummification is the act of preserving a dead body. It can be performed on humans as well as animals. The bodies that are mummified can be preserved frozen, wet, or dry. Mummification can be a natural process, or it can be deliberately done. It was practiced by several cultures throughout the history of mankind, the most notable among them is the Egyptians." 04-09

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