Museum Visit

My husband and I visited the Legion of Honor to see the mummy exhibit of Irethorrou. Irethorrow was estimated to live around the time of 500 BC. I chose this exhibit because I wanted to do a research paper on the people of ancient Egypt. The exhibit had many other artifacts from this time frame. It also included how they used medical science to learn more about this mummy without destroying it. They took pictures of the CT scan that they used to uncover what was in the mummy. You were able to still see the protective amulets that they are burried with. Through modern medicine they examined the process of ancient mummification. The Mummies and Medicine exhibit also includes other “cult of the dead” antiquities that relate to the ancient Egyptian beliefs of death and the afterlife including a beaded mummy mask from Dynasty 26 (7th century B.C.), an anthropoid coffin from Dynasty 30 (4th century B.C.), a funerary shroud circa A.D. 180-275, amulets, funerary furnishings and a selection of historical prints. There was also a computer there that generated models of the skulls of Irethorrou and of a close relative Ankh-Wennefer. My visit to this exhibit corresponded to my section in my research project named the "After Life". The ancient Egyptians lived for the after life. The preparation for the after life was very important and a very detailed process. It was all very interesting to see how important and how much preparation the Egytians spent on the after life. It is what drew me to researching and trying to understand the Ancient Peoples of Egypt. I wanted to know more on how the lived instead of just how they died. So that is what I did my paper on.