Mummies of the World: an exhibition at the California Science Centre in Los Angeles, in pictures.
A 10-month-old baby who lived in Peru 6,420 years ago; a 17th-century nobleman; a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her face; a woman who had tuberculosis; a child who had a heart condition and a youngster with a facial tumour. “Mummies of the World” is being called the largest travelling exhibition of mummies ever ᴀssembled. The 45 mummies and 95 artefacts in the show come from 15 museums in seven countries, said Marc Corwin, CEO of American Exhibitions Inc. The show opens today at the California Science Centre in Los Angeles, then will go on a three-year tour across the USCREDIT: AP
On show is the Detmold Child: a mummy of a Peruvian child, 8-10 months old, who died some 6,500 years ago, most likely from a heart defect. The mummy is on loan from the Lippisches Land Museum in Detmold, Germany. It is one of the oldest mummies ever discovered, and predates King Tut by more than 3,000 yearsCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The Orlovits family was with a group of mummies found in 1994 in a forgotten church crypt in Vac, Hungary. Michael [pictured] and Veronica Orlovits and their son Johannes were preserved by the cool, dry air and oil from the pine from which their coffins were madeCREDIT: AFP/GETTY
The mummy of Veronica Orlovits, a 19th Century Hungarian woman, wearing a replica of the original dress in which she was buriedCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The mummy of Johannes Orlovitz, who died at age one. The gown and bonnet are replicas of the original clothes in which he was buriedCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
Michael Orlovits emerges from a CT scan at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. The Orlovits family was with a group of mummies found in 1994 in a forgotten church crypt in Vac, HungaryCREDIT: AP
A CT scan of the skull of Michael Orlovits is displayed on a screen at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. “Mummies of the World” contains several multimedia displays, allowing people to view a mummified tooth under a microscope and look at a pH๏τo of a 3-D body scan, among other thingsCREDIT: AP
The mummies of Baroness Schenk von Geiern, foreground, and Baron von Holz, partially covered for modesty’s sake at their families’ request. Baron von Holz was a 17th-century nobleman who apparently died during the Thirty Years’ War in Sommersdorf, GermanyCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The 17th century German mummy of Baroness Schenck von GeiernCREDIT: AFP/GETTY
The mummies also include a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her faceCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
A close-up of the mummy of the Peruvian woman – an oval tattoo can be seen below her mouthCREDIT: AFP/GETTY
Beside human mummies, there is a mummified bog dog, lizard, fish, rat, hyaena, cat, squirrel, falcon and a howler monkey from Argentina [pictured[CREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
Mummy of a human foetus which died in the 30th week of development from a rare spinal tube defectCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The mummy of a woman from OceaniaCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
An adult female mummy, probably 30-50 years old, who suffered from tuberculosis so severe that her legs may have been paralysedCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The sarcophagus of an Egyptian priest named Nes-Pa-Qa-Shuti, dating back to about 650 BCCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The mummy of a man from Egypt and dated around 408 BCCREDIT: AFP/GETTY
The head of an Egyptian adult mummyCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The mummy of a Peruvian man, approximately 30 years old at time of his death some 1,000 years agoCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
The mummy of an Asian manCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
Detail of a mummy as seen through a magnifying glᴀssCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
A mummy of a Peruvian child, probably 4-6 years of age, from circa 1334 A.D. whose hair testing revealed some exposure to nicotineCREDIT: KPA / ZUMA / REX FEATURES
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