The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-15
! MUMMY UNR0LhED.
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HIBITION IN LONDON.

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HIB1TION IN LONDON.
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Weird.
A large ana distinguished company 0
Encli5hmcr assembled iC the boiaulc2
theatre of University College, London
Oh December IS, to witness tie unToil
!:y of 2 mummy from Upper Egypt
This mummy, the London Times says
''has for about half q century occupied
| a place il the college museum, but it j
not known how it came into t5e ncsacs
sion of the authorities. It was ct length
decided to unroll it, aud Mr.. Z. i. Wal
lis Budge, u. a, OF the British Tuseun-
was requested to undertake the task,
The chair was taken By alr. Erichscn,
president of tie college, and among
those present we're Sir. John Lubbock,
NJ. P, Sir A. Garrod, Professor Clad
stone, Professor Seeley, Professor Ram
.ey, Professor Goodwin, Professor Carey
Foster, Professor Hayter Le"is, Mc.
Bomancs, Mr.. Poyuser, Mr.. Almtaade-
ma, Ils. Beerbohm Tree, Dir. Rider Hag-
gard, Mr.. Maunde Thompson, DR.. Fitch
aud DR.. Quain.
"The mummy was placed Oh 6 table
on the floor of the theatre and loosely
covered with cloth Of fine linen of a
faded purple color, which bad formerly
constituted its outer wrapping. Before
proceeding to perform the operation of
unrolling the mummy, Mr.. Bulge made
son,e predatory observations on Esyp-
tian mummies generally. lie described
the principal methods of preserving the
human body By naturalization as three
in number. The first process required
that the intcstires should nc extracted
and embalmed N four pots dedicated to
four gods. The body was then soaked
in natron for seventy deys. At the end
of that time it was washed, and then
carefully bandagcd in hundreds of yards
OF linen. BY the second process the in
testines were dissolved out by means of
natrca, after which the body was soaked
in natron and then mumDifed. By the
third process the body was merely salted
and put into pit. Sometime bitumen
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cavity in the body after the intestincs
had been removed.
"At the conclusion CT his observations,
Mr. Bulge proceeded tc unToIi the mum
my. which was cloeig swethed il scores
81 ards q Thick. yCIEoseis..l Linen Of tinc
texture. The bands Of linen VGElef- 81
Width from fo2r to i've inches 20 abcul
q foo:. Some OF them were laid length
wise along the boaJ; Others were wrap
ped round aud round It. Ii the begin
uog of the process Of unrollirg there
vas very perceptible sicl:lJ smell Of
ornmetics. which, as the work Nert on,
gave place to more p1onaunced snd de-
cidedIy disagreeable oder. When &
great part Of the linen had been cemov
ed, black stains, caused by the bitumen,
became apparent, aod nesrer to the
body the wrapp;nss had suffered con-
from contact with this sub
stsace. Two small pieces OF linen with
fringes were discovered in the course OF
the unrol!ing, and these bore inscrip-
t!ons more or less impaired by the btu
men.
when AZ last the coverings had been
removed the body was found 20 5e of
very dark brown coIor-so dark, indeed,
as 10 be almost black. The skin where
it remained was hard ard shiny, The
arms and hands lag lcpgthwise upon the
abdomen, while thc heart and intcstines
were placed beneath the knees. The
features, when disclosed, stood out very
clearly, and were those of handsome
person, but the sx could not be deter
mined. Glass ey "a had been placed in
the head, and there was linen plug IN
the ear. llr. Bulge, at the conclusion
OF his task, said that mummy seemed to
belong to period about 800 years be-
fore ChIist. 1t was filed Eith bitumen,
and nearly all the flesh vas destroyed ir
Consequence. Parts of the skin remain
ed upon tie breast, and the bones were
still! IN fairly good condition. The in
,ce.ines, instead of being put IN pots, as
they usually were in case of person, OF
high birth, were placed beneath the
legs.
sThe person could not have been OF
very geeat Importance, because there was
neither scarabaus dor ring upon :he an
ger. The iucision on the left side was
still found, and was one of ths most in
.erestinc features in the mummy. The
person appeared tc have been called
Bek-Ran or Bek-Ranef. The only is
scription dccipherable was the na2e OF
Osiris, folded over the part of th" ston-
ach dedicated to that god, and prayer
for the heart of the deceased. There
was another piece Of linen bearing the
date, but She year had been Ilistcred By
tho bitumea. From the quality OF thc
linen, its freness of texture, and the
triuges TO the inscriptions, the mummy
must belong to the best period of The
ban munmifyi2S, possibly the n;rc.
teeo,h dynasty. The ipscr ptiona we:e
written in the hierat;c Or curren. haro
0, Egyptian hieroslyphics. The o:un-
ny was about 5 feet ard 8 inches in
height, aud was that of e. Egyptian E,
probably one OF the class corresponding
70 the lower middle class Of modern
times The body will undergo further
examination by scientific experts"
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