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Mummies arrive at Museum Center

Bill Rinehart
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WVXU

  The Cincinnati Museum Center is preparing for its next big exhibit.  Under the watchful eye of actors portraying security officers, Museum employees offloaded big, wooden sarcophagi from a moving truck, Thursday morning.

Inside the crates were more than 150 specimens and associated paraphernalia dealing with mummification.  The traveling display, Mummies of the World, comes from American Exhibitions.

CEO Marcus Corwin says mummification is not just an Egyptian tradition.  He says Mummies of the World includes a Hungarian family that died from tuberculosis, a German nobleman, animals, and the familiar Egyptian mummies.  It also features “MUMAB”, the first modern-day mummy, made following the original Egyptian processes.  That person donated their body to the University of Maryland at Baltimore, for scientific research.

Corwin says the origins of the 45 mummies and mummified body parts are not in question.  They are all on loan from legitimate museums.

He says the study of mummification helps us understand us as we are, and as we were.

Mummies of the World opens November 26th.