The Mummies of the World exhibit at The Arizona Science Center features 40 real human and animal mummies and 85 rare artifacts across the globe. Including Europe, South America and Ancient Egypt. It gives insights to a past 4,500-year journey in cultures and civilizations. There is the Natural, Artificial, Experimental, Science and Medicine Mummification Galleries to visit.
The Natural gallery explores several environments in which bodies can preserve as a result of the natural environment. Human and animal mummies in this gallery include those from hot, dry environments in South America, a natural sand-ยญโsalt environment in Egypt, an African desert, an alpine glacier, a German castle crypt with constant airflow and an acidic peat bog from the Netherlands.
The Artificial gallery presents mummies that have been prepared by humans for cultural reasons. The human and animal mummies in this gallery include an elaborately bandaged cat, two adults from Ancient Egypt and several shrunken heads from South America. Various artifacts associated with the preparation of the dead in Ancient Egypt will also be included, such as beautifully painted wooden sarcophagus, ushabtis and mummy beads.
The Experimental gallery centers around MUMAB, a body recently mummified following the techniques used by Ancient Egyptian embalmers, with detailed scientific documentation of the process. This gallery will include not only the mummy, but several of the tools used to prepare the body, all of which were replicated from original Egyptian embalming.
The Science and Medicine gallery explores the links between mummies, science and medicine. Aside from showing mummies prepared for medical purposes, this gallery will also include examples of the application of scientific and medical techniques for the analysis of mummies, and the important shift from autopsy to modern medical science to study mummies. The exhibits will include several anatomical mummies from the Burns Collection of the Maryland School of Medicine, South American mummies (with detailed 3D animations from the CT scans of the mummies) and church crypt mummies from Hungary (with discussion of the past and present scientific studies of tuberculosis).
The exhibition enthralls guests with dramatic displays of the mummies and their personal stories.
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