FfFfFfFF 58,120 Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Researchers in Los Angeles realized that a linen wrapping housed in the Getty’s collections fit perfectly with a piece held in New Zealand. Archaeologists have digitally reunited two fragments of a 2,300-year-old linen mummy wrapping covered in hieroglyphics from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. As Laura Geggel reports for Live Science, researchers from the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities at the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand had cataloged a 2- by 19-inch portion of the scroll in an online database. When employees from the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles saw photographs of the digitized wrapping, they realized that a section housed in their collections fit perfectly with the UC scrap. Both segments contain excerpts from the Book of the Dead, which was thought to help the deceased navigate the afterlife. Per the statement, the pieces are written in a hieratic, or cursive, script and date back to 300 B.C. Source: Smithsonian Magazine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A MESS 3,938 Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Reunite them in Egypt Генерал Марина Абрамовић Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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