Sentences with phrase «ancient animal mummies»
Egyptologists have turned to modern imaging methods to study ancient animal mummies.
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Most other ancient tattoos, many of which are on the back, appear to be symbolic and represent status or specific achievements, such as the elaborate animals of Siberia's 2,500 - year - old Pazyryk mummies.
After all, members of ancient Egyptian royalty were often interred with their animal companions; though if I remember what I learned in my high school history class correctly, the Egyptians did not exactly wait for the pets to pass on naturally before giving them the mummy treatment and stashing them in a pharaoh's tomb.
To meet ancient mass market demand, many animal mummies, when x-rayed have turned out to be fakes, made of bones and twigs wrapped to resemble the animal.
Fall exhibitions include Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt; Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo; and Roots of «The Dinner Party»: History in the Making.
Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt is organized by Edward Bleiberg, Senior Curator, Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, and Yekaterina Barbash, Associate Curator of Egyptian Art, Brooklyn Museum.