Thursday, May 14, 2015

Conservators open wooden coffin holding 2,500-year-old mummified remains of 14-year-old Egyptian boy

This is very interesting artifact:
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum have started conservation work on the mummy of Minirdis, the son of a stolist priest. The Field Museum has had the mummy since the 1920s, when the institution received it from the Chicago Historical Society.
Read more: https://ph.news.yahoo.com/photos/conservators-open-wooden-coffin-holding-2-500-year-old-mummified-remains-of-14-year-old-egyptian-1418041547-slideshow/photo-taken-friday-dec-5-2014-chicago-mummified-photo-050329761.html
I also came across with this article: http://historycurator.blogspot.com/2015/02/viola-desmond-nova-scotia-heritage-day.html

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