Meet the Mummy Named Demetrios

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Check out the Brooklyn Museum online
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Check out the website of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, in Brooklyn New York, Home of Demetrios and the objects from To Live Forever.

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What is a mummy?
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What is a mummy and why did people make them?

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Read more about the conservation of Demetrios
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It's directly from the Brooklyn Museum blog.

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Read a book about Egyptian Mummies
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Read The Royal Mummies, Immortality in Ancient Egypt, and learn more about the history of Mummies in Egypt.

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Read about another Egyptian Pillow
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Read about another Egyptian Pillow discovered in a burial site.

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An example of an exhibition installation
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Check out the other objects in To Live Forever
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Check out the other objects in To Live Forever and the Indianapolis Museum of Art's To Live Forever website.

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To Live Forever explores the ancient Egyptian belief that death was an enemy that could be beaten through proper preparation. Explore the conservation of the mummy Demetrios with the Brooklyn Museum's conservator Lisa Bruno, including reuniting his face with his body, stabilizing his wrappings, and the transportation techniques required by someone nearly 2000 years old.

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00:00:07 This is our mummy named Demetrios. We actually put his face back on his body. The portrait was actually on display

00:00:17 for a number of periods of years, whereas his body has never been on display. So part of this project is reuniting his portrait with his figure

00:00:27 and also just consolidating the paint on his wrappings and making him stable for travel on this exhibition.

00:00:36 Certain parts of his wrappings have giant, sort of, tears and holes in them. So we worked with a textile conservator named Kathy Francis

00:00:46 to apply this very shear thin fabric, which, in a way, will just contain and stabilize the areas that are torn in the linen of his wrapping.

00:00:58 He will be shipped on something that's going to be kind of like a giant pillow that will mean that we don't actually have to handle him all that much when he is travelling,

00:01:07 we will just handle the storage platform and he'll go on display on that and rest on that.