CHICAGO — Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the World's Columbian Exposition, held in the city in 1893.
The exhibit is called "Opening the Vaults: Mummies" and runs 17 February through 22 April. It features more than 20 mummies from Egypt and Peru, including complete humans and animals. Several will be displayed in their original 19th century cases and some are 5,500 years old.
The museum obtained many of the mummies at the exposition in 1893, but they hadn't been studied thoroughly until last year because of fears of damage. Scientists at the lakefront facility performed non-invasive CT scans on several mummies, allowing them to "virtually unwrap" them.
Jumba la makumbusho la Field Museum la Chicago limefungua maonyesho ya maiti kutoka kwa mkusanyiko wake mwenyewe. Miongoni mwao ni maonyesho ya kwanza ya ulimwengu ya Columbus yaliyofanyika mwaka 1893. Maonyesho hayo yanaitwa Opening the Vaults: Mummies na yanafanyika kuanzia Februari 17 hadi Aprili 22. Mifano hiyo inaonyesha zaidi ya mamia 20 kutoka Misri na Peru, ikiwa ni pamoja na wanadamu na wanyama. Vituo hivyo vimejengwa katika vyumba vyao vya awali vya karne ya 19 na vingine vimejengwa miaka 5,500. Makumbusho hayo yalipatikana katika maonyesho ya mwaka 1893, lakini hayakuchunguzwa kwa undani hadi mwaka jana kwa sababu ya hofu ya kuharibiwa. Wanasayansi katika kituo hicho cha ukumbi wa maziwa walifanya uchunguzi wa CT usio wa uvamizi kwa maiti kadhaa, na hivyo kuwawezesha "kuzifungua".