Show SCIENCE TO GIVE EFFECT OF LIFE TO ANCIENT DEAD I 1 the pharaoh whose mummified A body has reposed to in the desert tomb for 50 centuries may be rp restored stored to essentially the same appearance he had the hour he died the lost art of the E egyptian can be reversed and the effects of mil wiped away by the magic of modern science according to a report rt made to the journal of physical anthropology y at washington by dr J gillman south african anatomist one need stop only just short of the process of bringing the man to life again the discovery resulted from experiments with the naturally mummified bodies of bantu tribesmen believed to be about two centuries old which were restored to practically lifelike appearance by being kept for 14 days in a solution of sodium by dioxide and alcohol the action of which could be carefully controlled the possibilities of the application of this method are infinite cill gillman reports by careful manipulation the facial and general bodily features of the ancient phar oalis and their courts could be returned as if magically to their original state after this treatment the color returns to the skin together with the characters of skeleton and hair the natural ridges that occur in the skin can also be restored and had the land hand been present it would have been possible to revive the epidermal ridges and fossa and fingerprints could have been taken with the greatest of ease |