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    Chicago's Field Museum displays rare mummies

    CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the World's Columbian Exposition, held in the city in 1893.

    The exhibit is called "Opening the Vaults: Mummies" and runs Feb. 17 through April 22. It features more than 20 mummies from Egypt and Peru, including complete humans and animals. Several will be displayed in their original 19th century cases and some are 5,500 years old.

    The museum obtained many of the mummies at the exposition in 1893, but they hadn't been studied thoroughly until last year because of fears of damage. Scientists at the lakefront facility performed non-invasive CT scans on several mummies, allowing them to "virtually unwrap" them.

     

    18 comments

    • Alba Go Bragh  •  3 mths ago
      The Field Museum is fantastic! One of the best in the world.
    • matt  •  Cedar Rapids, Iowa  •  3 mths ago
      The Field Museum is an amazing place. It can be kind of spooky too. Years ago, they had the mummies on display in a basement room. I swear, there were a couple of them that would subtly rock back and forth from side to side. I'm not the only one who saw this. Creepy. They moved the exhibit to a new location and I never saw the 'rocking' phenomenon again in the mummies.
      • Pepper 3 mths ago
        Oh man, I would have loved to see that!
      • marshhawk 3 mths ago
        The mummies wanted out.
    • Dr Michael  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      I just wish the exhibition was closer to Texas so that I could see it!
      • Robert 3 mths ago
        me too!
      • Gary 3 mths ago
        Airplanes, buses, and trains have existed for many decades.

        People like you will always find an excuse, regardless.
    • Spunky Ned  •  2 mths ago
      You know what I like to see more than dis museum, Da Bears.
    • Jim  •  2 mths ago
      1893? Wow, those mummies are over a hundred years old!
      • Patty A 2 mths ago
        you're dumb! If you read the article it said that they mummies haven't been displayed since 1893. Some of them are over 5,500 years old.
    • bikergurl  •  Grand Rapids, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      Just make sure you go early in the day.... :)
    • marshhawk  •  3 mths ago
      I would like to see a picture of a mummy.
      Just one Yahoo.
    • bob  •  3 mths ago
      Long long ago they burned mummies in the steam locomotives.
    • William S  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  2 mths ago
      Bury the dead you sick people!
    • VIET VET 942  •  2 mths ago
      If the Spanish can claim silver from a sunken ship why doesn't the Egyptian and Chilean government want their dead back?
    • Texas Mike  •  Panama City, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      i wished my mummy was still here!!
    • Martha  •  Memphis, Tennessee  •  3 mths ago
      Just like Mooshell, on vacation without the daddies.
    • Joe  •  Salt Lake City, Utah  •  2 mths ago
      all 3 are chicago democrats....
    • Pat Walsh  •  2 mths ago
      We have a walking talking mummys,Pelosi and Reid.
    • Marvin  •  Peoria, Illinois  •  2 mths ago
      Just how long until Dr. Hawass swoops in to claim them and extort them back to Egypt?
    • Vladimir Jones  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      Will the mummy that Bill Clinton went ga-ga over be in there? Maybe he'll have to drop by for a visit.
    • James  •  3 mths ago
      I heard one was Bea Arthur in a scarf and another was a death warmed over Betty White.
      • wanderleg 3 mths ago
        I hope Bea comes back to haunt you and Betty drops by and punches you in the nose.
    • Loren  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      Michelle Obama is on display in Chicago..???
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