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Educational Exhibits on Egyptian Mummies The major facet of the Consortium's exhibits program is the Community of Portraits ™ begun in 2005. This collection of sensitive forensic facial reconstructions of
Ancient Egyptians continues to grow as the Consortium's research expands to include new subjects. The collection
has proven to be an extremely effective teaching tool. It has been designed with a basic pair of objectives:
to put an accurate human face on the past and to promote an enlightening and compassionate discussion of mummies
as representatives of a great and complex civilization which helped to shape our world.
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The Community of Portraits is made of forensic sculptures of ancient
Egyptian men and women derived from CT scans of mummies in American Collections. © 2009 Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium. All Rights Reserved.
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WRAPPED! Visitors
to the beautiful Berkshires will love "WRAPPED! Search for the Essential Mummy" now
on view at Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. Since opening on June 19, 2010, the exhibit has introduced
thousands to the amazing world of Egyptian mummies. WRAPPED! explores the Western interest in Egyptian mummies as scientific objects, and as sources of artistic
inspiration. In a very real sense, our fascination with mummies is part of a more pervasive and
important transformation in Western artistic sensibilities, contributing to the great classical revival and urge to recover
the treasures of antiquity. WRAPPED! looks at the role played by modern
imaging technology (computed tomography scanning, or CT) in current mummy studies and presents the work of 21st
century forensic specialists in studying, and in reconstructing the appearance of members of the important ancient Egyptian
community of Akhmim. For more information, email: director@amscresearch.com from this link or at the information link provided below.
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WRAPPED! features
a fantastic collection of rare prints, artifacts, early photographs and modern digital imagery that tells the story of
Egypt's mummies and their cultural legacy over the last 400 years.© 2008 Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium. All Rights Reserved.
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| Mummy of the woman Pesed (ca. 275 BC) one of three mummies in the exhibition Wrapped! now open. |
Forensic sculptures based on CT-generated models of actual mummies lie at the heart of WRAPPED! The first exhibit to explore ethnic diversity in ancient Egyptian society.
AMSCsculptures are developed using 30 tissue-thickness measurements and utilize CT-visible features to improve accuracy. Community of Portraits ™ © 2009 Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium. All Rights Reserved.
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