Images of the Afterlife September 27, 2012

Two ancient Egyptian mummies from Field Museum collections will come face-to-face with the public like never before in 'Images of the Afterlife.' Recent CT scans and the latest 3D imaging revealed the mummies' age-old secrets to Museum scientists, and enabled an artist to create hyper-realistic sculptures portraying how these two individuals looked in life, thousands of years ago. Now no longer merely mummies #30007 and #11517, visitors will be able to envision the mummified remains as real persons--a woman in her forties with curly hair and a teenage boy named Minirdis. Peer inside coffins and wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummies.