Mummy Observation Paper

I went to The Chicago Field Museum Saturday March 16th to go see the exhibit "Images of the Afterlife." Which featured mummies from ancient Egypt it featured a bust clay molding of King Tutankhamun which appeared to be the exhibits centerpiece, the clay molding was incredibly detailed, it had almost an eerie feeling to it. It was very lifelike almost as if they chopped off a human above the chest and displayed it. There was also another mummy that had a clay mold of it she is referred to as mummy #30007, unlike the male mummy Tutankhamun which had little to no hair the female mummy had locks of hair, which went down to the start of her chest, she had dark black hair that is braided and bangs that cover her forehead till just above the eyes.
Both mummies from just the clay molding that was displayed appeared to be small short people with what would appear to be an athletic build. King Tutankhamun could in my opinion be passed off as a female mummy that lost all of her hair from just the bust that was displayed. Then there was mummy #111517 who was named Minirdis, who also had a just a head mold that was created of him alongside the head mold was a gelatin skull recreated from a CT scan. They had the images of the CT scan there displayed on TV screens the images were staggering to be how detailed they are considering that the coffins were never opened nor the mummies unwrapped. In some of the CT images you can actually still see the organs inside the mummy, I found it amazing how well the ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies for the afterlife. The one mummy CT scan of Minirdis was placed in a large coffin when he died, it was stated that he died in his teenage years by accident or his death was
I also picked this exhibit because we read specifically about King Tutankhamun in our book. To read about King Tutankhamun then to actually see staggering images his mummified body and a bust of him in person was awe inspiring. It appears after more research that King Tutankhamun's coffin was on display until January 2007, it would have been amazing if his actually coffin was there at the time of this review. After reading in the book King Tutankhamun's coffin was made out of solid gold. Also his grave was undisturbed when it was discovered by Howard Carter a British archeologist in 1922. Grave robbers back then used to break into the graves of famous Egyptians and rob them because when they were buried they were buried with tons and tons of treasures. The detail from the picture in the book of King Tutankhamun's coffin cover is unbelievable and to believe that someone took the time to make something like that for it to just be buried into a tomb for the afterlife astonishes me and it is made out of solid gold. It just shows how much the ancient Egyptians cared and believed in the afterlife to