The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Peabody Museum Returns Five Ancient Mummies to Denmark

The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned five Greenlandic Inuit mummies to Denmark last week, five years after their repatriation was first requested by Danish authorities. The ...
KEYT

Field Museum uses CT scans on mummies to see inside them for first time

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber. The ...
The Times Leader

Va museum unwrapping mummy’s story with CT scan

(AP) Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week ...
9NEWS

Arm of a 19th century mummy came off after mishandling by museum staff

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico's federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country’s famous mummified 19th century bodies. The ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Mummy is a man: Museum makes shocking discovery

Talk about an identity crisis. Doctors now say that a 2,000 year−old Egyptian mummy in the Brooklyn Museum — thought to be Lady Hor — is actually a “he.” A CT scan last week determined the mummy’s ...