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Show SCIENCE TO GIVE EFFECT OF LIFE TO ANCIENT DEAD The pharaoh whose mummified body has reposed In the desert tomb for 50 centuries may be restored to essentially the same appearance he had the hour he died. The lost art of the Egyptian mummymaUor can be reversed and the ertects 01 urn-leuiums urn-leuiums wiped away by the magic of modern science, according to a report made to the Journal of l'hysicnl Anthropology An-thropology 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 expe-riments with the naturally mummified mummi-fied bodies of Bantu tribesmen, believed be-lieved to be about two centuries old, which were restored to practically lifelike appearance by being kept for 14 days in a solution of sodium hydroxide hy-droxide and alcohol, the action of which could be carefully controlled. "The possibilities of the application applica-tion of this method are infinite," Gill-man Gill-man reports. By careful manipulation manipula-tion the facial and general bodily features of the ancient pharoahs and their courts could be" returned as If magically to their original state. "After this treatment the color returns re-turns 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 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." |