One team on Friday Dec. 5, embarked on a journey to uncover a fragile Egyptian coffin that held the remains of a 2,500-year-old mummified 14-year-old Egyptian boy.
A team of three scientists and a conservator at Field Museum on Chicago, I.L., had taken the lid off the Egyptian coffin using specially created clamps as a cradle to lift the coffin’s lid, according to Associated Press writer Caryn Rousseau. The had uncovered the coffin in a humidity-controlled lab. To bring the coffin into the room they had used surgical gloves to lift the coffin and walk it safety to a table.
The Field Museum received this artifact back in the 1920s from the Chicago Historical Society.
The artifact is set to premier in fall of 2016 in a showcase called “Mummies: Images of the Afterlife.” Rousseau stated that the artifact is “expected to premier in September at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, then travel to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in fall 2016.”
Read the full story at http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-scientists-open-egyptian-mummy-coffin-061832763.html
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