Which mummies damaged

Likely not. The protest after Friday prayers was organized by the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood which is the only effective opposition and biggest party, but included members of leftist parties and trade unions…. This is so common in the Muslim world, where the only counter to the authoritarian regime is Islam, Islam, and more Islam. There is, of course, no genuine democratic opposition. Who are u? Are u in the Israel mossad employee?

Nice that you love peace, we all do. Go watch a little CNN at least. This is exactly how the Iran revolution started, and look where they got. Had they known! CNN what?

CNN a right wing propaganda organization. Try someone a little more balanced. Zionism is also not an ideology shared by all Jews, in fact Hassidic Jews are anti-zionist for theological reasons.

The two should not be confused. Please be careful and make the distinction. Signed, another Jewish American. Are you at all aware of the irony inherent in your post? Probably not. Too busy apologizing and making excuses for islam. This reveals you for what you are. A racist. Tell me Oh Enlightened One…what race is islam? In case you missed it there are Chinese muslims, Caucasian muslims…there are muslims from every race on earth. Does the name Father Botros ring a bell?

How about some quotes from the Little Green Book of islamic Jurisprudence…? Show me one case of Western Protestors fucking up museums. Excuse you very much for making such biased and inaccurate statements!

The US was complicit in the lootings that happened there and lets not even go into the countless indigenous archaeological sites that are desecrated and destroyed via corporate US interests. Clearly it is the government doing this.

Notice only one case is broken in, in a whole row of display cases and no one is there but the a cop. Pure ignorance at its best. His police forces left ethics and humanity in the dust a long time ago. I would put nothing past them. I see no headless mummies in these pictures. I guess those looters had a heart after all… or perhaps these are just not accurate photographs. I guess violent rampaging looters know how to break a picture frame and leave the art intact.

Animals… who are we to judge the worth of a history we never chose to learn from, why should an impoverished people place value on a corpse when we dont ourselves. Or art for that matter. Who is the animal?

Should I name how many mansions are built on Indian burial grounds? We cant even offer respect these days to our own time and place in the history we are currently shaping for our future.

State parks may as well be gone. History books … laughable. Then again maybe you didnt catch. And we are the facade we think the world should choose to follow. At what point exactly do you think America should stfu and mind our own business?

My spirit is with the people of Egypt right now as they are the Voice, the Revolution Our Country once stood pridefully for as One Nation. Perhaps we have a lot to learn from them. Look closer. The pictures clearly shown items missing, statuary broken ie, feet on stands without bodies, figures without feet , and the boat model from the pyramid of Khufu broken up.

Pixie, I remember the museum well from my travels, and I did see a few items broken in the photos…. You lose. Green on the outside and Red on the inside. Other things are missing as well. A child could see. Your blindness is willful. You remind me of the self hating Jews that support islam. I pity you. Your life must suck with the view you have of your fellow American. Right now there are oil rigs perched off shore cheering the melting of the polar caps for more drilling…. ANWAR was right up on the number one Drill baby drill Palin campaign until she was caught in a rut with the idea about it by environmentalists.

AS an Alaskan myself I realize its just a matter of time up there kinda like how the companies got around that silly off shore drilling ban by creating their own man made island. This Victorian Italianate residence exists as the grand dame of the homes in the town, sitting on the edge of the commercial district on a large spacious lot on the bank of the Cache Creek, just outside of Woodland.

What came to be known as the Griffith Mansion, the residence was built upon the ancient site of an Indian burial ground. While digging to lay the foundation for the chimneys, the bones of an Indian buried in sitting position were discovered. There was a hole in the top of the skull, the brains had been removed and hand-made Indian money put in its place when he was buried.

He was probably a Digger of note among his tribe as a financier, and perhaps thought money would be of more use than brains in the hunting grounds. Okay Blackfoot, please go talk to your elders before trying to say no mansion has ever been built on Indian lands.. I think you made MY Haida Tlingit grandmother roll over in her grave with that one.

The god they worship. And then quickly burned those at the stake who called them by their proper names. You being Blackfoot should know all about this.

This history lesson not enough? I thought everyone who went to social studies knew that.. In , some Lenape in canoes met the Florentine Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European explorer to pass New York Harbor, although he may not have entered the harbor past the Narrows. I dont hate Americans… on the contrary I love the concept of my country so very much with every part of my being which is why I am SAD, ANGRY and Confused as to why my fellow citizens conduct themselves in such fashion and then decide we are best fitted to be the world police we when so freely give up our own rights, let our own people starve, be homeless, unemployed and of course SICK.

Youre not that. Now look at the pictures again. Now do you see anything strange? If the glass is broken.. Remember the whole reason for these protests is because these people are poor hungry and oppressed. And as far as gold idols being taken.. Ive not seen a scrap of viable news yet with a list of items taken other than 2 skulls and 2 statues.

What bizarre looting eh? And honestly if I was just bitching and blaming I wouldnt be trying to educate… which I am pretty sure in some way I just did.

The pages and lists go on and on and on ….. People getting organised to end chaos and looting. Jan25 Egypt 3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply. Richard lived there for years.

He also speaks fluent Arabic. Anyone in cairo to confirm this? This is an important area for future studies. Since this problem had not previously been addressed, it was decided to establish a pilot study Vowles to attempt to determine if DNA was still amplifiable after the application of different conservation treatments to modern and ancient tissue samples.

Blood spots on filter paper were used to provide the modern DNA samples, and fragments of Egyptian mummified tissue supplied the ancient DNA samples. The conservation techniques that were tested included gas fumigation using phosphine, carbon dioxide, methyl bromide and nitrogen ; wet sterilization using ethanol, methanol and Industrially Methylated Spirits IMS or denatured alcohol ; and irradiation tests using high energy electrons and ultra-violet radiation.

Using Polymerized Chain Reaction PCR , gel electrophoresis and silver staining techniques, the results were found to show that the DNA was still amplifiable in all the modern samples that had been treated. There was insufficient time within the MSc programme for the student to analyze the ancient DNA in the mummified tissue, but there are plans to extend this study to cover this area, and also to expand the range of conservation treatments that are examined.

However, within the parameters of each of the tests undertaken to date the conservation treatments were not shown to have destroyed the DNA. Results A range of conservation treatments are available for arresting deterioration in mummified remains; it is also possible to provide the necessary environmental conditions to ensure the continuing well-being of the objects.

However, these methods can be expensive, time-consuming, toxic, or applicable only to partially or completely unwrapped examples. Also, their effect in destroying evidence is uncertain, and future results from histology, immunocytochemistry, DNA identification, and other diagnostic methods may be impaired Conclusions Mummies and other preserved bodies are a unique and irreplaceable resource for the study of ancient cultural practices such as methods of mummification, for the identification of the occurrence and patterns of disease, and for genetic and population studies.

Methyl bromide can react negatively with many materials, especially metals, and ethylene oxide has been found to off-gas after treatment and is no longer recommended.

At present conservators rarely use fumigants, instead freezing see Florian, Mary-Lou or replacement of oxygen with inert gases are commonly used see footnote 1. References Cited Belyakova, L. Microbiology Moscow Cockburn, A. Cockburn eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Curry, A. David, pp. David, A. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

David Preservation of Human Mummified Specimens. Collins, pp. The shocking image of their heads lying on the floor of the Egyptian Museum with broken bones scattered all around have been haunting Egyptologists and mummy experts for a week.

Despite close examinations of the released pictures, extensive archival research and opinion exchange on social networks, no expert has been able to identify them. Fear that royal mummies could have been damaged arose with the first news reports of the break-in, which mentioned looters ripping off the heads of two Pharaonic mummies.

Indeed, a gilded, open-work cartonnage case belonging to Tjuya, shown on the museum floor in dramatic footage from Al-Jazeera, prompted speculation that the damaged mummies were Yuya and Tjuya, which recent DNA tests identified as King Tut's great-grandparents.

Further information from Zahi Hawass, newly appointed minister of antiquities, did not help solve the mystery. In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, Hawass said that the thieves took two skulls from a research lab before being stopped as they tried to leave the museum. Wafaa El Saddik, former director of the Egyptian Museum, confirmed to Discovery News that the mummies had been in a research lab. They are unknown persons," El Saddik, who led the museum until a month ago, told Discovery News.

Researchers were particularly intrigued by one mummy, whose ripped-off head was photographed amid bones scattered across the floor.