[SunkenCiv]

This historical photo shows the ancient Egyptian mummy case on display at the Stanford museum before the 1906 earthquake broke it into pieces. Credit: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries

[fishtank]

Did someone say “mummy”?

[DannyTN]

Don’t read them out loud.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***fragile cartonnage, a type of ancient Egyptian material of either linen or papyrus covered in plaster, into hundreds of pieces.***

This was quite common back then. I remember fifty five years ago a news report of Egyptologists taking apart a papyrus breastplate from a mummy and finding an unknown Greek play written on the pieces. It was the story of a boy and girl separated when young, then as adults coming together, falling in love and soon to get married. The Egyptologists were in suspense trying to find how the play ended. We never found out.

[PGR88]

Was it a “best by” date?

[Right Wing Assault]

Hodge said it's possible that the inscriptions were mentioned somewhere, but those records did not survive the 1906 earthquake.

Yes, it's hard to believe that someone didn't see these before or even after the case was broken.

[Drawsing]

This is the great scandal of archaeology. Warehouses are full of relics packed away and never studied or written up.

Its more fun to go out and dig stuff up than to study it and write papers about it.

[HollyB]

Algaze found that the name of the buried woman was Senchalanthos. One part of the inscription translated to: ...

“May her name rejuvenate every day.”

[bgill]

A Madonna bra. Senchalanthos was way ahead of her time.

All that and we still don't know if Algaze passed the course.

[KarlInOhio]

Senchalanthos

Unfortunately it was written there by an ancient Starbucks employee so we still have no idea what her name was.

[lowbridge]

Student discovers writing on pieces of ancient Egyptian mummy case

"BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"

[TADSLOS]