Researchers at the Field Museum in Chicago recently scanned 26 mummies, creating thousands of X-ray images that give new ...
Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.
The scans created thousands upon thousands of X-rays, which are digitally stacked to examine what is inside them.
They have been dead for almost 3,000 years, but the mummified Egyptian remains at Chicago's Field Museum all have a new set ...
Mummy" is the word at the Field Museum this Halloween, which is using some new technology to unlock the secrets of the dead.
A century ago, Chicagoans spent the last week of October just like we did — experiencing unseasonably warm weather and ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber.
Public-facing workers at the Shedd have joined a surge of labor action among Chicago's biggest cultural institutions.
which include admissions to the museum. The Chicago CityPASS also covers access to a 3D film. The Field Museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but no visitors are admitted after 4 p.m. The ...
Though mummies have become a Halloween mainstay, there's people behind the wrappings that many times are forgotten about.