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  • Student discovers writing on pieces of ancient Egyptian mummy case

    09/04/2018 9:15:29 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 61 replies
    Phys.org ^ | August 30, 2018 | Alex Shashkevich, Stanford University
    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,...