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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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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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