Thursday, October 13, 2005

Mummy news Mysteries of the mummies

Unlike vampires, werewolves, and other monsters that capture the imaginations of kids, mummies are real. They don't rise from their tombs and walk around, of course, but they have gone a long way into making archaeology interesting to those who don't otherwise identify themselves as science enthusiasts.

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On Wednesday morning, teacher Monica Emanuelson's sixth-grade class at Hamden Hall received a wealth of information about science and archaeology from two guest speakers: Mummy researchers Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue.


That was kind of a goofy show if you've seen it (The Mummy Road Show), but they covered a lot of territory and showed a lot of different sorts of mummies from all over. And they used almost exclusively non-destructive techniques to study them.