Brooklyn’s Mummy Movers
Speaking of Lucy’s fragile bones, what’s up with the recent flurry of CT scans for museum mummies (here, here and here)? Has this become a hot new medical specialty? Do mummies leave the hospital none the worse for the ride and the radiation?
In other words, as we urgently inquire about any elective medical procedure, do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Speaking of risks, the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient patient, “Demetrios,” will soon be traveling to 11 U.S. museums in the exhibition, To Live Forever, Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum. His recent trip to the scanner at North Shore University Hospital, Long Island, was seen as a “trial run,” to assess whether he’s fit for the three-year journey.
I guess the thinking goes: If a 2,000-year-old man can survive the Long Island Expressway, he can withstand just about anything.
Click link below for comment from Sally Williams, Brooklyn Museum’s public information officer.
Sally Williams, public information officer at the Brooklyn Museum, writes:
Your blog this morning was a hoot. Demetrios survived his trip on the LIE, none the worse. It was more stressful to the rest of us, traveling in the four-vehicle caravan, trying to keep together for the 20-mile trip that took two hours in mind-boggling traffic.