The Mummy Exhibition In Philadelphia The Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia invites visitors to attend an exhibition called The Mummies of the World. This is the mummy of a child from Peru who died 6500 years ago at the age of 8-10 months due to a heart disease. It is one of the oldest mummies in the world and is over 3000 years elder than the mummy of Tutu Pharaoh. | Every exhibit here is unique. You can see the remains of a dog buried in the swamps of Germany 500 years ago or bones of a child who lived in Peru 6420 years ago. The Peruvian mummy lived in the 13 century AD. | The exhibits were prepared in collaboration with experts from 15 leading European institutions and taken to many large cities of the USA. The mummy of an ancient Egyptian. | The 10-year-old girl is looking at the the mummy of an adult person found in the caves of Chile. | The woman with children were found in the South America. | The mummy of Michael Orlovits born in Hungary in 1765. The mummies of his family members were found during the reconstruction of a Dominican church. Cold and dry air of that place as well as the pine oil allowed the mummies to be preserved till our days. | The investigations held showed that Veronica Orlovits and her husband suffered from severe tuberculosis. Besides, some other traumas and injuries were found on their bodies. | Another member of the family, Johannes Orlovits. | Computer tomography and other scientific methods help in mummy studying. Using them, we can find out how people lived and died. The method is non-invasive and gives three-dimensional image of a mummy enabling to preserve it for future generations. | Scanning results of the Orlovits mummy obtained in a Californian medical center. | Scan session of the Orlovits mummy. | The mummy of the pre-Columbian era found on the territory of a desert in Chile. | A howler monkey mummy from the South Africa. | The Egyptian lived 400 years B.C.E. | As the day of the exhibition approaches, the employees of the Californian scientific center are sealing the glass cube containing a sarcophagus and Egyptian mummy. | Latest Update on Ritemail Previous Post : Click Below
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