June 16th, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein
If you read Lisa’s post on the animal mummy field trip to the Animal Medical Center and got as excited as we did, follow us on Twitter and Instagr.am because we are going to accompany the conservators and curators and cover the process live this Friday, June 17. Read more
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June 13th, 2011 by Lisa Bruno
These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS. In earlier blog posts we described the CT scanning of Brooklyn’s human mummies, but we have...
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April 29th, 2011 by Tina March
Yesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned. (See Lisa Bruno and Ed Bleiberg’s blogs about the previous mummies). Read more
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March 3rd, 2011 by Rachel Danzing
Our research to further understand the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose continues. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating was one of the first scientific analytical techniques that we employed to confirm the date for this piece, thought to be approximately 1420 B.C.E. based on previous...
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January 31st, 2011 by Lisa Bruno
That’s exactly the question we were asking ourselves when Nancy Rosoff and Susan Kennedy Zeller organizing Curators for Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains put not one but four tipis on the checklist. The exhibition opens February 18, 2011 continuing to May 15 and includes not only tipis but...
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