"Chicago scientists open Egyptian mummy coffin" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Dec 2014 4:05 p.m. PST |
"Once the lid was off the wood coffin holding the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy, scientist J.P. Brown could relax. The conservator at Chicago's Field Museum and three other scientists had just used clamps and pieces of metal to create a cradle to lift the fragile lid. Wearing blue surgical gloves, they slowly lifted the contraption containing the coffin lid and carefully walked it to a table in a humidity-controlled lab at the museum. "Sweet!" Brown said, after helping set the lid down. He later added: "Oh yeah, god, I was nervous." Full article here
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| Augustus | 09 Dec 2014 6:07 p.m. PST |
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| charared | 09 Dec 2014 7:34 p.m. PST |
NERVOUS??? Ya shoulda seen how the mummy reacted! 
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| Tango01 | 10 Dec 2014 10:12 a.m. PST |
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| Zargon | 10 Dec 2014 7:19 p.m. PST |
What no 'daddy'? Yeah me too m'afraid :+) |
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