An unwrapped royal mummy believed to be the body of pharaoh Ramses I - Atlanta - Brief Article

* An unwrapped royal mummy believed to be the material substance of pharaoh Ramses I, the planter of the famous line that included Seti I and Ramses II ("the Great"), will be get backed to Egypt. Acquired three years ago by the agency of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University from the Niagara Falls Museum in Canada, along with a large collection of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts, the mummy's identity was determined by means of CT-scanning by the Radiology Department at Emory University Hospital. The research revealed elaborate mummification techniques, including copious amounts of resin in the cranium a practice usually lavished alone on royal mummies, the museum said. The circumstance was comparable to "finding George Washington's material part abroad," said Dr. Peter Lacovara, curator of Ancient Egyptian Art at the Carlos. The mummy arrived at the Carlos completely unclothed, an unusual circumstance suspected to have been the work of tomb-looters. The particular will remain at the Carlos to be the centerpiece of an exhibit from May to September 2003 entitled "Ramses I: Science and the Search for the not to be found Pharaoh," after which it will go [i]or[/i] come back to Egypt.

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