If this doesn’t have all the trappings of the intro to a kick-ass horror movie, I don’t know what does:
One of the biggest exhibitions of mummies ever staged is opening in the northern Italian town of Bolzano. The show, called the Dream of Eternal Life, features more than 60 mummies from Egypt, Asia, Europe and South America, assembled from 27 museums. They include animals as well as humans, and the artefacts connected with them.
Included in the exhibition is the mummy du jour, ‘Oetzi the Iceman‘. Not sure how morbid you’ll be feeling after viewing the bodies of the ancient dead all day though…
For those inquisitive souls who aren’t likely to see the exhibition, but would like to, you should definitely check out the Iceman Photoscan website. It features zoomable (that’s ‘zoomable’, not ‘zombie-able’!) high-resolution scans of Oetzi – you can literally get right into the pores of his leathery skin. Great for bringing out the inner Grissom in all of us.
Again though, I’m not too sure for how long you’ll be wanting to get up close and personal with the ancient dead…
