I was inspired by these mummy cookies and used a similar technique of piping frosting across the cookies, using different angles and overlapping some of the lines until most of the cookie was covered. Then I placed a tiny bit of frosting on the back of two candy eyeballs and attached them just above the center of each cookie.
Middle coffin, inner coffin, and mummy of Nesmutaatneru, Egyptian, Late Period, Dynasty 25, 760-660 BC. Wood, plastered linen over wood, human remains, linen, faience. Egypt Exploration Fund by subscription.
The ancient Egyptians wanted to defy death and live forever. In preparation, they mummified the dead, burying them in coffins covered with religious scenes and texts, and surrounding them with grave goods to sustain them in the afterlife. With more than 140 objects ranging in date from about 1700 BC to AD 300, the Mummies gallery introduces visitors to the gods and goddesses who inhabited the underworld, and to the journey taken to reach them. The installation features five embalmed dignitaries, including the husband and wife duo of Nesptah and Tabes, still enclosed in their elaborately decorated cases, and Nesmutaatneru, whose blue bead-adorned mummy was buried in a series of three coffins. Other objects include carved tomb chapel walls, painted coffins, statues, magical equipment, papyri, and canopic jars, designed to hold the mummified organs of the deceased. Dominating the gallery is the massive black stone sarcophagus lid of Kheperra, a general in the 6th century BC.
The NYULMC Department of Radiology produced some preliminary volumetric renderings in 2011 and a Museum intern worked last summer processing part of the 2011 CT data into additional visualizations, such as fig. 11, which allow us to see Nesmin's well-preserved soft tissue. Most fascinating are Nesmin's amulets, as his mummy is one of only a few in the world that is known to have such a large set of amulets still within its wrappings. One amulet of particular interest is visible on Nesmin's forehead (fig. 16). As a representation of the healed eye of the god Horus, this so-called wedjat eye was believed to have general healing and protective powers. Sometimes it is depicted on the forehead of mummy masks (fig. 17). Nesmin's amulet shows that such masks echoed an actual tradition of placing a real wedjat eye amulet on the dead person's forehead.
[1] Special thanks are due to the NYU Langone Medical Center Department of Radiology, in particular to Georgeann McGuinness, MD, and Emilio Vega BS, RT, who performed the CT scans and produced preliminary volumetric renderings. We are also grateful to Daniel Mindich, whose donation supported the transport of the mummy. Many staff members of the Museum participated in arranging and preparing the packing and transport. We would like to thank Sarah Boyd, Emilia Cortes, Elizabeth Fiorentino, Ann Heywood, Dennis Kelly, Gerald Lunney, Isidoro Salerno, and Crayton Sohan and his team. We are also very grateful to Paco Link from the Museum's Digital Media Department, who has been working with the Department of Egyptian Art on this project and whose help has been invaluable.
One early morning he was riding along the dirt road which later would become Shea Boulevard admiring his mountain framed in the early morning sunlight. He was struck by how much the mountain resembled an Egyptian mummy lying down. It occurred to him that the name Mummy Mountain would be far more appealing than Windy Gulch. That morning he resolved henceforth his mountain would be called Mummy Mountain and he would market his land under that label.
Avoidance can be used by anyone who is producing blueberries in an isolated location. Unless the disease is present in wild or cultivated bushes nearby, growers and homeowners can avoid mummy berry by planting only disease-free, dormant plants. This avoids introducing mummies or infected leaf shoots into the new planting.
Magnetic resonance imaging on the head of the hydrated mummy. T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images proved not to be very inferior to the computed tomography (CT) image. Although the skull (sk) is clearly seen on the CT scan, the T1- and T2-weighted MR images showed very weak or no signals, respectively. Magnified MR images exhibited the structures very clearly. The dura mater (dm), brain (Br) and scalp (sc) showed high signal intensities. The skull showed weaker signals on both images, especially on the T1-weighted image. Note the mixed signal intensities for the brain, which might have been due to the retention of the cortex and medulla.
In our findings, it was clear that MR images of a hydrated mummy are not inferior to corresponding CT images. In fact, whereas CT images are difficult to interpret even for well-trained radiologists, owing to the fact that the organ radiodensities are not very different from each other, in the case of our MRI scan of the hydrated mummy, that pertinent information was easily obtained. Specifically, as the signal distributions of the T1- and T2-weighted MR images were very organ-specific, we concluded that MRI scanning on a hydrated mummy offers the advantage of the precise differentiation of each mummified organ. The MR signals for the mummy's IVD structures are a good example of the remarkable differences between CT and T1- and T2-weighted MR images, i.e. the distributions of the T1- and T2-weighted MR signals for the IVDs differed from each other, especially for the nucleus pulposus, which could be seen only on the T2-weighted MR image. Such clear MR IVD images could even help us to diagnose a vertebral disease, which would not have been easily accomplished by CT scanning alone. Specifically, we found, thanks to clearly differentiated IVD, spinal canal and posterior longitudinal ligament structures on MR images, that the mummified individual had suffered from a spinal stenosis due to diffuse disc bulging.
There is an approximate number of 2500 known and edited mummy labels, but their being published in various periodicals and journals makes a thorough study all the more difficult to undertake. Therefore, this project is focused on making the already-published labels easily accessible to scholars as an on-line database. In addition, the aim is also to publish as many as possible of the still unpublished labels, to republish all those that have been defectively or incompletely edited, as well as to locate missing ones. Indeed, it is not uncommon for such items to pass from one collection to another and sometimes to disappear and go missing for years until they are eventually rediscovered later. The most difficult labels to track include those which were part of private collections, were sold at private auctions, or disappeared, for example, during World War II.
Mummy labels represent a very interesting corpus, which has often been neglected in the study of the material and documentary evidence from ancient Egypt. Looking towards the future, this fully searchable database will certainly be a useful tool for subsequent studies on mummy labels and will contribute to a better understanding of the life of the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor David Haviland likes to equate winter sanitation to the beginning of a race. In his mind, now is the time for growers to get in the starting blocks. That means tuning up the equipment required to shake mummy nuts from trees and, if needed, having hand poling crews on standby.
These Vegan Mummy Cupcakes will be a hit at your spooky Halloween bash. They are fun to make, kid-friendly and completely adorable! The mummy wrapping is piped on with vegan buttercream and the eyes are dotted with chocolate chips. It's so easy!
Plus, they are really easy to make and you can get the kids involved. The piping doesn't have to be perfect and any imperfections will only add to the mummy's character. It's a fun way to spend time with your kids and teach them how to bake.
To make the mummy eyes, place 1 heaping tablespoon of frosting into a small Ziploc bag and push it down to one corner. Twist shut and cut a very small piece off the corner. Make two rounded dots on each cupcake by pressing gently on the bag. Place a chocolate chip in the middle of each dot and gently press down a little.
To make the mummy wrapping, fit a Pastry Bag or Large Ziploc Bag with a #44 Basketweave Frosting Tip (#45 will work too, but the strips will be wider). Make about 5-6 strips going across the face. Pipe a strip diagonal across cupcake (from temple to jaw). Now repeat the same strip on the opposite side. Feel free to add more strips for a layered effect. Have fun with it!
If you're using my homemade buttercream (highly recommend) it will soften quickly in the piping bag with warm hands. So, if you don't feel you can pipe the mummy strips fairly quickly, it's best to add the frosting to the piping bag in small batches and leave the rest in the bowl. Just add more as needed. It also helps to keep frozen veggies or an ice pack nearby to keep your hands cool in between piping.
The buttercream frosting can stay out at room temperature for hours without softening too much. However, I prefer to store the decorated mummy cupcakes in the fridge in an airtight container. I usually take them out an hour before serving. This keeps them fresh, sets the buttercream and prevents it from getting too soft.
Yes! You can basically decorate any treat that has a big enough surface for the mummy face. I've made mummy cupcakes with my Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes and they were adorable! So, if you're not a chocolate fan, you may want to make them instead.
So when I started working on some colorful ideas I thought why not dye up some bandages for colorfully cute mummy pumpkins? And you know what? This might be my favorite no carve pumpkin craft of 2017, truth be told!
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