Professor Turns Mummified Hand Into Teaching Tool

CNN ^ | October 22, 2002 | Associated Press

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BROOKVILLE, New York (AP) -- When a severed human hand arrived in his mailbox, Bob Brier wasn't horrified or shocked. He thought it might be something cool to bring to work.

Brier is a professor of Egyptology and a renowned mummy expert, and the hand was a gift from a woman whose father had purchased it in 1926 in Egypt from locals touting it as an ancient mummified hand.

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Dr. Bob has dedicated his life to the study of anything Egyptian. A personal friend of mine, I thought any of you Egyptology buffs out there might be interested in this amusing article. Dr. Bob and colleagues from U. of Maryland performed the world's first mummification according to Egytpian methods on a cadaver back in 1997 (or thereabouts.)

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