The Virtual Mummy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virtual Mummy write by Sarah Underhill Wisseman. This book was released on 2003. The Virtual Mummy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Virtual Mummy is a thoroughly readable introduction to the nondestructive techniques used by contemporary researchers to analyze the artifacts and culture of ancient Egypt. It tells the captivating story of the "virtual unwrapping" of an Egyptian mummy and the interdisciplinary project that allowed researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate the person inside by way of an autopsy performed by computer. The mummy, acquired by the university's Spurlock Museum in 1989, was from the Fayum region of Egypt and is dated to about 100 a.d. Although other mummy projects have used destructive analytical techniques, the Spurlock mummy was never even unwrapped. Minute samples of loose material were taken for dating and for textile and wood analysis without affecting the integrity or display quality of the artifact. Faculty and staff members from area hospitals and University of Illinois departments including classics, anthropology, chemistry, textile sciences, and entomology were recruited by the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials for the project. The interdisciplinary team implemented a research plan that relied on medical imaging techniques including X rays and CT scans. They also utilized for the first time in the history of mummy research a Cray II supercomputer -- at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications -- to render three-dimensional images of the mummy's skull and body. Replete with illustrations, Sarah U. Wisseman's engaging chronicle of teamwork and research gives readers the chance to experience how ancient history melded with contemporary technology. The Virtual Mummy also includes a review of the development of mummification and a general history of mummy research.
Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt write by Marie Svoboda. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum write by David L. Thompson. This book was released on 1982-01-01. Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These extraordinary Egyptian images produced from Julio-Claudian times through the age of Constantine (the first four centuries A.D.), seem often to have been commissioned while the subject was still alive and displayed in the home. At death, the portrait was inserted into the deceased’s mummy wrappings. Thirteen mummy portraits from the Getty Museum’s collection are catalogued in this text by Dr. David Thompson, professor of Classics at Howard University. Placing the works in the context of other so-called Fayum paintings, Dr. Thompson examines their importance as portraits and identifies the hands of individual painters. Numerous illustrations accompany his discussion.
Mummy Cat
Mummy Cat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mummy Cat write by Marcus Ewert. This book was released on 2015. Mummy Cat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Mummy Cat prowls his pyramid home, longing for his beloved owner. As he roams the tomb, lavish murals above his head display scenes of the cat with his young Egyptian queen. Hidden hieroglyphs deepen the tale and are explained in an informative author's note"--
Mummies
Mummies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mummies write by Elizabeth Carney. This book was released on 2009. Mummies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes mummies, both natural and man-made.
