Open coffin Egyptian mummy 2,500 years old

Scientists open in Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA, a coffin containing the mummy of an Egyptian boy to a 14-year-old named "Minardes", and for the first time since the discovery of the ark in the twenties of the last century.
The scientists found in the coffin on the son of a priest is still wrapped in cloth embalming, which now turning color to yellow and Altha a lot of dust, and where the boy was buried about 500 years before the birth of Christ.
Fuss with it for the scientists was that the boy's body lying in a very long time, make it impossible to remove the shroud from his face or his body, fearing that breaks down immediately to dust and dust.
So toes is was the only part that can be seen by scientists, having opened his coffin for the first time since his untimely death.
Lifted the coffin lid fragile
One of the scientists involved in the open coffin World Archaeological JP Brown from the "Field" Museum in Chicago, and three other scientists, they used only metal clasps been great precision measurements mode, to lift the coffin lid fragile, while preventing journalists from approaching and were allowed to take pictures from a distance.
Has been uncovered about the mummy on Friday operation in the fifth month of December (December) of this, part of a project initiated by scientists at the museum to preserve the mummy son "Minardes", the son of one of the most senior priests in the time of his death.
Restoration operations maintain stability
The need mummy to perform restoration operations maintain stability, so that they can travel to the exhibition "Mummies: Photos of the afterlife," expected residence in the month of September of the next year (2015) at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles City, and also is expected to travels to the Museum of the Mummy "Denver" of nature and science in the fall of 2016.
The Field Museum in Chicago has received the mummy since the twenties of the last century, when received from the Chicago Historical Society, the mummy is part of the full range of Egyptian mummies in the museum's 30 mummy.
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