BOmp

Bologna Mummy Project

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  • Project duration: -
  • Project status: ongoing
  • Funding:
    Internal funding EURAC (Project)
  • Total project budget: €190,000.00

The “Bologna mummy project” has started thank to the collaboration with the Museo Civico Archeologico of Bologna (Italy), that houses inedited Egyptian mummies of unknown provenience and dating. From a very preliminary survey, it appeared that the mummies were not visible to the public, perhaps since the 1970’s, and that their actual presence and state of preservation were unknown. Thus, in 2020, we started an interdisciplinary project (conservation, geochemistry, anthropology/paleopathology and genetics), that aims to: i.evaluate the mummies' state of conservation for securing them, ii.to reconstruct their biological (sex, age at death, stature) and paleopathological profiles. iii.to sample the bone and soft tissues for radiocarbon dating (14C) and iv. perform possible genetic (aDNA) analyses. The obtain data will be presented in international conferences, scientific journals and, possibily, in future temporary exhibitions.

Publications
Facial depiction of a Roman Period mummy with portrait from the Fayoum Oasis, Egypt

Liu J, Wilkinson C, Roch A, Zesch S, Mussauer A, Paladin A, Zink A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 10th World Congress on Mummy Studies | Bolzano | 5.9.2022 - 9.9.2022

The Bologna mummy project: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human remains from Roman and Medieval Egypt
Picchi D, Samadelli M, Golfieri R, Vara G, Buscaglia P, Genta R, Piccirillo A, Pozzi F, Cardinali M, Tomedi I, Wurst C, Maixner F, Zink A, Paladin A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 10th World Congress on Mummy Studies | Bolzano | 5.9.2022 - 9.9.2022

La mummia di un antico egiziano a Mantova
Picchi D, Paladin A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Flash d'arte. Lavori per un nuovo museo. | Mantova Palazzo San Sebastiano | 1.10.2021 - 1.10.2021

Rai Radio Alto Adige: POST-IT
Paladin A, Samadelli M (2021)
Radio-TV
Una mummia sotto la lente di Eurac
Brunelli E (2021)
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Our partners

Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna, Italy

Saint Orsola hospital (Bologna)

TOMEDI SAS DI TOMEDI IRENE E CO.

LA NUOVA CARPENTERIA DI CRISAFI DOMENICO

G&D Staschitz Meran

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MummyLabs

Development and centralization of the laboratory infrastructures of the Institute for Mummy Studies ...

Duration: - Funding: FESR (EU funding / Project)

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