... which is no longer attached to the body, is well developed.”
How about that? Keep that quote to pull out at dinner parties to sound both funny and educated. Curious about the context? Check out this article a coworker sent me today.
Another interesting note about this article relates to one of the mummies we have in the museum. The museum's founder is really convinced our braided hair mummy is the famous Queen Tiye. He want her to be someone special from Egyptian history, but she probably is not. He's had a couple Egyptologists, a proctologist (to use the colonoscopy machine on the mummy), and a gynecologist/amateur Egyptologist take a look at it. So far no one has been able to say if she is Queen Tiye or not, but most of the specialists concluded she probably was not. Now it looks as though there is DNA evidence that some other mummy is Queen Tiye. I'm not really sure what methods they went through to analyze the DNA. I know from some other ancient DNA studies I have read that the stuff is pretty fragile, fragmented, and very easily contaminated. At any rate, interesting stuff.
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