Posted on 09/04/2018 9:15:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
When Ariela Algaze signed up for a spring 2018 course on museums, she didn't expect to get wrapped up in the mystery of an ancient Egyptian mummy case that Jane Stanford herself purchased more than 100 years ago... Algaze's research led her to discover information that was not known by university scholars - including inscriptions on the coffin and the name of the mummified woman inside it... Algaze learned that the artifact contained writing after sifting through hundreds of its fragments, which have been stored in three boxes, unstudied for decades. The mummy case, which Jane Stanford purchased in 1901, was once display at the Stanford Museum. But the 1906 earthquake shattered the coffin made up of fragile cartonnage, a type of ancient Egyptian material of either linen or papyrus covered in plaster, into hundreds of pieces. The fragments went largely unexamined until Algaze took them out and studied each piece as part of Christina Hodge's course, Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present. As part of the class, Algaze and other students picked an object from Stanford's collections to research and present in an exhibit at the Stanford Archaeology Center... Algaze's research into the coffin advanced when she discovered two inscribed fragments. To translate the text, Algaze consulted with Egyptologists Foy Scalf at the University of Chicago and Barbara Richter at the University of California, Berkeley, and other experts on demotic, the ancient Egyptian written language. Algaze found that the name of the buried woman was Senchalanthos... Hodge, academic curator and collections manager of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections... said it's possible that the inscriptions were mentioned somewhere, but those records did not survive the 1906 earthquake.
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. do you mean GREEK squad? Although the Egyptians probably don't want a visit by Alexander the Great....
Maybe those writings are just packing instructions......
They regarded him as a liberator, as he was the one who got rid of the Persians. Also, as in many places he went, there were already Greeks there. :^)
Could be, they used a lot of cartonnage because they lacked lumber -- in fact, it was the age of cartonnage, which is probably why they called it the Cartonn Age. They just pronounced it funny. ;^)
People who play with toy mummies aren't wrapped too tight.
Wow, I've used that joke again, and we got past post #40 before I did...
I've got a few more on deck that are much older than that, I'm just waiting for the right time and right person to spring them. :^)
Same done to ooparts.
I don't think they were good with ovals, so, probably more a squaretine, or maybe rectangletine.
I had that one
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>> “You said it was from ancient Greece so I just assumed that would be the case.” <<
Was one of them “Trans?”
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Well, let me bring you up to date!
It was adapted to a present day setting and made into a Hallmark movie in 1998.
And again in 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015 and, with a winter setting, for Christmas-in-July this year.
Hopeully you’ll be well entertained if the situation plays out as well as it did today.
Well, for the one I've waited longest, it should be a cinch -- I just have to get a psychologist with a longstanding interest in liberal cardboard-cutout political posturing (but he also supported Pat Buchanan years ago) and none in the sciences to somehow bring up a certain astrophysics topic. Then I'll move in for the kill.
You’re a funny guy!!
Thanks!
Myco-androus?
That one definitely took a minute!!
Actually more than minute to be honest!!
Clever
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