Anthropologists join in work of reconstructing mummy's face

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Wayne County Historical Museum mummy history



1929 -- The mummy was purchased for the Wayne County Historical Museum
by museum founder Julia Meek Gaar in Cairo, Egypt. She was told the
mummy had been exhibited in a curio store there for 40 years before
owner sold it to her.

At the time, Egyptian officials tried to halt its export. It took
months, including an appeal by President Herbert Hoover, to secure its
release.


Gaar purchased the mummy's mask separately.



January 1930 -- The mummy arrived at Morton High School with $350 in
shipping charges due. The high school principal had to scrounge up the
money to pay the fee.


1974 -- Museum intern Mark Millis arranged for the mummy to have X-
rays at Reid Hospital.

At the time, doctors suggested that the mummy was about 6 feet tall,
its age was 20 to 50, and that its skeleton may have been compacted to
fit into the sarcophagus. The skull was not wrapped or attached to the
body and its lower jawbone was missing.


Those 1974 X-rays have long been a part of the museum's Egyptian
exhibit.



2000 -- When the mummy returned from a loan to a Michigan museum, it
received a CAT scan and a second set of X-rays at Reid Hospital. The X-
rays revealed a jawbone near the shoulder and more disarray among the
bones.


June 2003 -- "The Mummy Road Show" visited the museum, did some
research on the mummy and filmed a segment, which aired later that
year.


2006-2007 -- Volunteer Bonnie Sampsell, who has a passion for
Egyptology and has work published on the topic, cataloged the museum's
Egyptian collection, refurbished the mummy exhibit and wrote a booklet
about it. Her research showed that the museum mummy is a male, about
age 30 to 35 from early in Dynasty 22, about 900 B.C.


January 2009 -- Work begins by forensic artist Brenda Robertson
Stewart to reconstruct the mummy's face using its skull as a basis.


February 2009 -- As forensic artist Brenda Robertson Stewart continues
working to reconstruct the mummy's face, she invites forensic
anthropologists Andi Simmons and Jeremy Beach to help. They seek bones
to determine the mummy's height and help volunteer Bonnie Sampsell
remove small samples for carbon dating.

[William Stonier]

The $350.00 shipping fee sounds almost as bad as when a customs officer at the border insisted a curator from Washington state shipping a mummy up for an exhibit in British Columbia produce a death certificate. Canada Customs at work! Also when the large mummy cache in Egypt was shipped by boat into Cairo, the customs officer dealing with the cargo fees for the barge classified the mummies under a code for dried fish.
Hope all is well with you my friend. Sorry I haven't been on much lately. I have been plagued with computer problems. I had to replace my dvd drive and then I completely lost my wireless connection for three days. All is good here. How is your daughter? Mine just got accepted at Emily Carr College of the Arts. Hooray. She's been trying for three years. Very difficult to get. in but she finally made it.

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