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The Ancient Egyptian Mummy: A Defense Against Tomb Robbery Presented by Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney

Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts

November 3, 2011

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About 1000 BCE in Ancient Egypt, the wealthy residents of Thebes began to favor complicated and enhanced mummification techniques: False eyes of stone were placed in the heads of the deceased, embalmers stuffed the shriveled limbs and torsos of the dead to make them appear full and lifelike, skin was plastered and then painted, and false hair was carefully woven into the hair of the departed. Such elaborate embalming techniques reached an apex in the Egyptian Twenty-First Dynasty, though no one quite knows why. In this talk, Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney, star of Planet Green’s “Out of Egypt” and consultant to the TV series “Lost,” will suggest that this degree of body preservation became popular because of the increased risk of tomb robbery. Investments in mummification may have provided psychological security for elites who intended to perfectly preserve for eternity the flesh and bones of the deceased, even if all their burial goods were stolen.

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    Frist Center for the Visual Arts

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    Nashville, TN 37203

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    November 3, 2011

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    Thursday 6:30pm

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