Toulouse. “Mummies, immortality regained”: the film online on Youtube
As part of the Mummies, Preserved Bodies, Eternal Bodies exhibition, the Museum of Toulouse is showing the film Mummies, rediscovered immortality – to be discovered online on Youtube – which presents the meticulous work carried out by the greatest specialists around the collections. of the Museum.
The gestures and words of Laure Cadot, restorer, are as precise as they are gentle and delicate. After identifying the specimens, comes the time to the restoration of three mummies from the collections of the Museum: first dusting with a brush and sponge, observation under a microscope…
The use of 3D scans makes it possible to reveal the invisible: one of the mummies, that of an Egyptian woman, has male legs, without anyone really knowing why the replacement was made.
Benjamin Moreno, expert in 3D digitization (Ima Solutions Company), plays on the layers of digitization to reveal secrets, which fuel new investigations.
omies, immortality regained
26 min – produced and directed by the Muséum de Toulouse, 2022
Visible from November 17 on the Museum Youtube channel.
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