Mummy

The Iceman better known as Otzi, was found buried within the ice of the Alps in the 1990’s. Ever since then people have tried to come up with theories for how Oetzi was murdered over 5,000 years ago. He lived at the end of the Ice age, and the beginning of the stone age. Otzi was five feet two inches tall and around forty to fifty years old. He had been a person of large significance during his time. Now in the 21st century we might have a clue as to why he died. Otzi died after retreating from…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has arranged its largest exhibition on ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts in the history, “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt”. The expanded exhibition include an additional eight cases focusing on the science behind studying mummies. In exhibition, a combination of rare artifacts and cutting-edge research tools illuminate how Smithsonian scientists have pieced together the lives of ancient Egyptians through their burial practices and rituals…

Basic Description The chosen object was the “Cartonnage Case containing Mummy of Nes-Ptah”. The mummy belongs to Thebes, Egypt from Dynasty 22. It is dated back from 946 – 712 BC. The cartonnage and the mummy I put on the display at museum that was gifted to museum by C. Granville Way in 1872. The cartonnage is in the form of a figurine that is brightly painted in horizontal registers and columns. The cartonnage is made of wood and is varnished. Another resin material is poured over the coffin…

Mahpiya Vanderbilt Archaeology 1 Bauer Mummies Ancient Egypt has become synonymous with mummies. The elaborate burials and preservation of the bodies is a defining factor of their culture. The word mummy comes from the Persian word mummia which means bitumen. The term was used in the middle ages to the embalmed bodies because of their blackened appearance of the skin, mistakenly thought to have been caused by the use of bitumen in their preservation when in actuality, the blackened appearance is…

Portraits: Greco-Roman Egyptian Mummies? The Fayum mummy portraits emerged from a time of great change in Ancient Egypt—a time of decline in the ancient Egyptian religious traditions. Alongside this decline, there was also a rise in Greco-Roman influences on the aesthetic values of Egyptian art—through the first century BCE to the first centuries CE—particularly those that were used in religious rituals, such as temples, wall paintings, and the actual adornment of the mummies themselves.…

1. What is the Middle East like? What is it like compared to the U.S. or Europe? In The Mummy, the Middle East appears frozen in time, stuck in the time in which “the Mummy” originally lived, supposedly 3,700 years ago. The film opens on images of ancient ruins and desert landscape, and its magical qualities are also immediately established with the words of the Scroll of Thoth speaking of Amon Rah (the God of gods) and of the “magic words,” through which the mighty one will return. Not only…

This mummy case was also reflected the social realities that the image defines the appearance of the member of the society at a particular time . Their imagery combines the conventions of behavior and appearance appropriate to the members of a society at a particular time as defined by age, gender and class. From top to bottom, first the portrait of Artemidorus attracts the attention with golden leaf crown and golden leaf decoration. This mummy case was enclosed in a red painted stucco case.…

During the period of ancient Egypt there where masterfully created monumental pyramids, fascinating sphinxes, and marvelous mummies. Ancient Egypt is well-known for the construction of towering perplexing pyramids. These massive monuments housed the dead bodies of pharaohs, kings, queens, and nobles. In these tombs the mummified remains of these important people were buried with gold and other treasures which they believed would be needed in the afterlife. Surprisingly, it required 100,000 burly…

After visiting the Field Museum’s Egyptian collection, I would argue that mummies can only be considered art when the corpse is buried and wrapped with intention. Mummification evolved from an incidental natural process to a complex burial tradition focused on using artistic representations to inform the metaphysical of intentions of the deceased. It is only when the corpse becomes an object, (a vessel for the spirit), that it’s intention as art became apparent. The earliest forms of…

The Mummy Portrait of a Man is from the Fayum region in Egypt. It was painted about 150-200 B.C. It is painted in encaustic on wood, and is a Fayum portrait. The term Fayum portrait is actually derived from a Coptic word meaning “The land of the lake,” which…