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Program on
Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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MORE ON MUMMIES AND ANCIENT EGYPT
Many Egyptology sites already exist on the World Wide Web. Here is
an
annotated list of a few of the most useful:
The Mummy Master
Good place to visit for updates on current mummy research and
publications.
INSTITUTE OF
EGYPTIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS
This page includes a "Color Tour of Egypt" and information on
Egyptian sites and archaeology.
EGYPTIAN
MUMMIFICATION
This web page is part of the educational programming of the Spurlock Museum.
SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION MUMMY PAGE
An excellent account of the Egyptian mummification process.
SHAWN KNIGHT'S MYTHOLOGY SITE
Good source for short descriptions of Egyptian gods.
CYBERMUMMY
A spin-off of the University of Illinois mummy project was
participation
in a video seminar for K-12 teachers, who used our mummy data to build
an
Egyptian gallery in a "virtual museum." Students and teachers in three
schools
in Urbana, Illinois, worked together to master on-line video technology
and
expand the museum during the 1996-1997 school year.
THE ORIENTAL
INSTITUTE MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
This site includes mummy information and a virtual tour of the
galleries.
THE UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN KARANIS PAGE
This site displays images and information from the site of Karanis
in the
Fayum--the region from which the University of Illinois mummy
originated.
ANCIENT HISTORY LINKS
A useful site with many links to different museums.
HOW MUMMIES WORK
Web article by Tom Harris with many useful links (April 2001).
MANCHESTER
MUSEUM MUMMY RESEARCH
Information about mummy research and an international mummy
database.
ARTERIAL
DISEASE IN MUMMIES
A good site on paleopathology.
Copyright 1999. University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
