J.P. Brown and three other scientists recently used a series of clamps and metal in order to carefully pry open an Egyptian coffin. This process began Friday and features the mummy of a 14 year old boy, Minirdis, who was the son of a stolist priest. The conservators are prepping the mummy for its upcoming exhibit, "Mummies: Images of the Afterlife," which is set to premiere in Los Angeles next fall. The Chicago Field museum has had the mummy since the 1920s. Minirdis is part of the museum's collection of 30 complete mummies from Egypt.
Egyptology is fascinating to me and I hope the scientists can preserve the mummy to the best of their ability. While some may argue that Egyptologists are the ones actually doing the "grave-robbing" here, I personally feel like this is better than some random person looting and ultimately depriving the rest of the world from obtaining this piece of ancient history. Oddly enough, this article reminds me of our nation's technological advances in both science and industry during the Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution. We can only hope science continues to prosper and excel as a field.
This is so interesting! I also love ancient history and the remains of it that we have left to study and explore, trying to figure out exactly what the story was back then.. It's a wonderful thing to have such a large exhibit available of these ancient artifacts.. I'd love to be able to see them in person!
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Egyptology is such an interesting subject because it is a hands-on look o our past history. So often we only see history as a boring textbook subject, but really it is so much more.
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