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Mummies of the World at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
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Dirk Van Tuerenhout is the curator of Anthropology for the Houston Museum of Natural Science and a friend to Houston P.A. for many years. Talking to him is like getting a rip-roaring history lesson. We talk about their new exhibit: Mummies of the World and how modern technology (tomography) is helping us expand our understanding of history at an exponential rate. The subject is also a reminder that humans have done strange things in the name of religion, memory and science. Civilizations from all over the world developed remarkably similar traditions related to death and the afterlife, despite having no contact with each other.
Got to their website to get ticket to the exhibit and see all the other great events happening at the museum. www.HMNS.org
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Got to their website to get ticket to the exhibit and see all the other great events happening at the museum. www.HMNS.org
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