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Documentaries

The University of Manchester made two documentaries about the unwrapping of Mummy 1770 and the Manchester Museum mummy project at the time of the unwrapping. You can watch these below.

Mummy 1770: The Unwrapping

Please be aware that this video contains some video footage from the unwrapping of Mummy 1770.

Egyptian Mummies: An Investigation

Articles

A book on the mummy project was also released in 1979. The full text is can be downloaded as a PDF file below, with kind permission of the Manchester Museum.

The Manchester Museum Mummy Project: Multidisciplinary Research on Ancient Egyptian Mummified Remains (complete text, PDF 43MB)

PDFs by chapter

The Manchester Museum Mummy Project: Multidisciplinary Research on Ancient Egyptian Mummified Remain

The full bibliographic reference for this book is:

David, A.R. (ed) 1979. The Manchester Museum Mummy Project. Multidisciplinary Research on Ancient Egyptian Mummified Remains. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

These resources are available for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA)