Sunday, June 20, 2004

Mummy wrappings giving up new texts

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/178611_mummies19.html
After being wrapped, Late Dynastic mummies were encased in "papyrus-mache" - coverings made of recycled papyrus texts. The University of California-Berkeley has a collection of these which is the least mined of these resources to date, and these are now being explored.

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