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35 Animal Mummies meet Twitter and Instagr.am

Posted on June 16, 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 … Continue reading…

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Animal Mummies – X-radiography, and coming soon – CT scans!

Posted on June 13, 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 … Continue reading…

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Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital

Posted on April 29, 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). Lady Gautseshenu, … Continue reading…

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Live Tweeting Mummy Wrapping and Conservator Q&A Tuesday!

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

If you were following us on Twitter last June, you probably remember us live tweeting as a group of mummies were taken to North Shore University Hospital for CT scanning.  Tomorrow, our conservators are going to be in our conservation … Continue reading…

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Animal Mummy Update

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

Those of you who are 1stfans got an introduction to the animal mummy research project being done at the Museum when we held an informal presentation about the project to look at some x-radiographs and see some animal mummies up … Continue reading…

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Male and Female Mummies: Bad Grammar, Bad X-rays, Bad Judgment

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Edward Bleiberg

It should not be so hard to tell a woman from a man. Yet three of the five male mummies from the Brooklyn Museum that were CT-scanned in the last eighteen months at North Shore University Hospital were at one … Continue reading…

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Mummy Transport

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

As some of you may have seen from the recent press coverage, we took four of our Egyptian human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned—short for computed tomography.  Although the bodies were well preserved with the … Continue reading…

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Live Tweeting Mummy CT Scanning Today!

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

We’ve got something very cool going on!  Follow us on Twitter today to get our updates—we are going to be tweeting live as curators and conservators take four mummies in the Museum’s collection to the North Shore University Hospital for … Continue reading…

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Thothirdes

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

Thothirdes may be familiar to those of you who have seen her on display in the 3rd floor Egyptian Galleries.  She was deinstalled and brought up to the lab this week so that we could prepare her for a trip … Continue reading…

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More on mummies…

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

In addition to continuing to x-ray the animal mummies,  the Conservation Lab has started preparing to send several human mummies to North Shore University Hospital. Some readers of this blog may remember that we took the Mummy Demetrius to North … Continue reading…

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Animal Mummy Research

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

This past Saturday as part of programming for 1stfans at the Brooklyn Museum, I gave a presentation on the animal mummy research the Conservation Department is doing with the Museum’s Egyptian Curator Ed Bleiberg. The presentation was fun and interactive … Continue reading…

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A Titanic–Egypt Connection in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Mary Gow

Like people, books have histories. Bookplates, inscriptions and marginal notes all tell us something about where the book has been and who owned it. The Brooklyn Museum’s Wilbour Library of Egyptology recently received a gift from the Museum’s Director of … Continue reading…

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Conservation Treatment of Demetrios Continues

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Tina March

To recap previous blogs, the mummy of Demetrios is wrapped in linen, then the entire surface of the linen is painted with red lead. On top of that are areas of gilded decoration. The next step in preparing Demetrios for … Continue reading…

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Who Was Demetrios and How Old Was He When He Died?

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Edward Bleiberg

The mummy of Demetrios raises a large number of questions that can only be answered with the help of a team of scholars. Each of the team members brings a particular kind of knowledge to answer these questions. Their specialties … Continue reading…

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Conservation Treatment of Demetrios Begins

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Tina March

I’m back from leave, and during the last several months we’ve been busily getting all of the objects ready for the “To Live Forever, Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum“exhibition. In this post, I’ll talk about the conservation of Demetrios … Continue reading…

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