Mummy

For four years during my undergrad I had the privilege of studying Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. When I started college, I believed that I would be pursuing a career in the museum world as a curator or in museum administration. However, my interests in the justice system along with my background in Anthropology conflicted with that goal of working in a museum setting until I found that I could have a career involving both of my areas of study. My…

The mummy being unwrapped many centuries down the line and a x ray being performed showing that the body was mummified with their jewel so that the person could bring their jewels with them on to the afterlife. The Panel from an Ivory Box carving shows in detail…

What would you say if I told you John Wilkes Booth, one of the most famous assassins in history, escaped and lived out the rest of his life? Not only this but, the government knew that John was not killed and ignored the countless facts. Many historians, authors, ex-government officials and even major magazines agree that something is a little off about the account of his death. While we are told that John was shot by a Union soldier in Garrett's Farm 12 days after Lincoln’s assassination,…

steals a mummy. He considers this mummy the “new Jesus” that Hazel speaks about when he preaches. However, when he takes the mummy to Hazel, Hazel destroys it (O’Connor 188). Hazel preached throughout Wise Blood about people needing to find the “new Jesus.” So, it is ironic that when he is presented with his, he destroys it. It also supports fate over free will because this sets several events in the novel into motion. Such as Sabbath Lily leaving Hazel when she sees that he destroyed the mummy,…

blooming since then. Originally, tattoos were believed to have begun some time around 2000 B.C. In 1991, however, scientist discovered a mummy that they dated to be around 5,200 years old. The mummy had small tattoos scattered around its body. This meant that the earliest tattoos were now from 3350 B.C. to 3100 B.C. (The Incredible Age of the Find). This mummy became known as Iceman. Iceman was discovered near the Italian-Austrian…

The impact of the Egyptian cult of death had a huge effect on the visual arts of Egypt. Pyramids made for the pharos, silently reach out to the sky seeking eternal life from the sun god Amon. The cult of death is responsible for most of ancient Egypt’s visuals arts and as well as their architectural monuments. From the pyramids and the great tombs to the hieroglyphs and the sphinx Egypt has a fast amount of history that is known greatly around the world as one of the most fast and interesting…

The Creatures While the re-animated creatures in Frankenstein and Imhotep the Egyptian creature in a movie the mummy are both portrayed with a surprising sympathy, it ends up badly for both of them. The creature Imhotep whose mummified body was accidentally brought back to life brings a bad curse to the Egyptians as he seeks revenge (The Mummy Movie). Victor’s creature unlike Imhotep was created with the purpose of blessing its creator. He was a product of love and commitment to bestowal of…

“I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change the events anyway.” (Anne Frank) To have been broken to such an extent is something from a nightmare, something that became a hellish reality. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,(by Anne Frank) perfectly illustrates the horrors of being Jewish in such a damaged era. A time of death, a time of destruction, and of war. This unintentional autobiography…

Petrie excavated different parts of the sprawling oasis area of Fayum in Alexandria -Egypt- (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). Petrie directed his attention to excavations done in the Pyramid of Amenemhet III (Tour Egypt, n.d.). In the pyramid, hundreds of mummies were found with fascinating portraits of the mummified bodies (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The funeral portraits are know as the Fayum portraits and were later found all around Egypt (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The Fayum portraits date…

The Nile River, the very same African river that produced a seemingly unlimited amount of papyrus, apparently also acted as a thoroughfare for imports and exports, including importing papyrus, acacia to other countries, including Israel. The city-port of Heracleion was mentioned by ancient historians. But, until its recent underwater discovery, it was thought to be legend. Also, modern-day scholars dismissed its connection to the River Nile. Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) and Strabo (64/63 BCE – c.…