Exhibition of Mummies of the world

The mummies from around the world
In Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, has opened an unusual exhibition - "Mummies of the world." Each exhibit is unique, whether it be a dog, whose remains had lain in the peat bogs of Germany about 500 years, or embalmed child, who lived 6420 years ago in Peru. The exhibition of mummies collected 45 and 95 items related mummification and embalming. "Mummies of the world" has been prepared by experts from 15 European institutes under the auspices of the German Museum Reiss Engelhorn-Mannheim (Reiss-Engelhorn Museum). The exhibition has been demonstrated in many major U.S. cities. Detmoldsky child: mummy Peruvian 8-10-month-old baby, who died 6500 years ago, most likely from heart disease. The mummy was borrowed for the exhibition the Museum Detmold, Germany. This is one of the oldest mummy in the world, it precedes even the famous Pharaoh Tutu on more than 3,000 years.

Peruvian mummy woman who lived in the 13th century BC

Mummified inhabitant of ancient Egypt. (Jessica Kourkounis / The New York Times)

10-year-old Naish Brumer examines adult mummy found in the caves of Chile. (Jessica Kourkounis / The New York Times)

Found in South America mummy women with children. (Jessica Kourkounis / The New York Times)

Mummy, he's in the past Orlovits Michael (Michael Orlovits), was born in Vac, Hungary, in 1765. The family was part of a group Orlovits mummies of the XVIII century, found in Vac in 1994. They were found during the reconstruction of the Dominican church in underground tombs. Cold, dry air in the crypt, as well as pine oil allowed to be mummified bodies and safely preserved until our days.

The study showed that Orlovits Veronica (Veronica Orlovits) suffered from severe tuberculosis, as well as her husband, Michael Orlovits. In addition, there were found some other injuries and wounds.

Mummy Yoganess (Johannes Orlovitz) from the family Orlovits.

June 23, 2010. Dr. Heather Gill-Frerking (Heather Gill-Frerking) from the museum Engelhorna Rice says: "Computed tomography and other tools of science are the gold standard in the study of mummies, helping us learn more about how people lived and died. This technique is noninvasive and allows you to record a three-dimensional mummy for the archive, which also helps us keep the mummies for future generations. "The photo was taken at the Medical Center "Cedar-Sinai," California.

June 23, 2010. Made in the Medical Center "Cedar-Sinai," California, scan the mummy of Michael Orlovits.

June 23, 2010. Scanning mummies Michael Orlovits.

Human pre-Columbian era mummy found in the Atacama Desert (Chile).

Mummy monkey howler from South America. (Jessica Kourkounis / The New York Times)

Human Mummy of Ancient Egypt, who lived about 400 BC

Before the opening of the exhibition "Mummies of the World" at the California Science Center and John Erick Russia Diloski cover glass cube that is placed in a sarcophagus and Egyptian mummy.