Alumna Discovers Inscriptions on Egyptian Mummy Case
Ariela Algaze ’17, now a sophomore at Stanford, discovered an inscription on a mummy case in the class, Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present.
Below is an excerpt from Stanford News.
When Ariela Algaze signed up for a spring 2018 course on museums, she didn’t expect to get wrapped up in the mystery of an ancient Egyptian mummy case that Jane Stanford herself purchased more than 100 years ago.
“I was just excited to learn how to put an exhibit display together,” said Algaze, a Stanford art history sophomore. “But I became obsessed with finding out everything I could about this artifact.”
Algaze’s research led her to discover information that was not known by university scholars – including inscriptions on the coffin and the name of the mummified woman inside it.
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