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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Egyptian mummy to undergo medical tests to try to solve mysteries PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 14 June 2004
June 14, 2004

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An Egyptian mummy shrouded in mystery will undergo medical tests to try to determine its age, sex and cause of death. The mummy, named Then-Hotep and believed to be about 2,500 years old, will be poked, probed and photographed from every angle at Baptist Hospital East this week. It will undergo a full-body CT scan, X-rays, scans of the teeth and jaw and diagnostic imaging of the bones.

Then it will be prepared for display in "The World Around Us," a permanent $4.3 million exhibit at the Louisville Science Center opening next June. The mummy has already spent a century in Louisville museums. Its head was severed in the 1937 flood.

The mummy was X-rayed in the late 1980s, but its "hands are folded over the pelvic region" and its gender remains elusive, said Theresa Mattei, the science center's director of exhibits.

Its name and an assumption that the body was a female stem mainly from interpretation of hieroglyphics on the mummy's coffin.

The science center and Baptist Hospital East radiology staff are partners in the mummy project, with the hospital donating its services, said Pam Colburn, director of radiology.

Also on the team is Mimi Leveque, who owns a company called ArchaeaTechnica of Waltham, Mass., an expert in ancient restorations. Consulting is Joyce Haynes, an Egyptologist at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Before the mummy is transported, it will be tightly wrapped in a sheer polyester fabric "that will hold everything together," Leveque said.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/8920277.htm
 
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