EMINA

A place to discuss information about Egyptian mummies in North America Directed by SJ Wolfe; database design by Kathleen M.

Haley; web design by Caroline and John Stoffel. Websiteourtesy of the Egyptologists electronic forum

In conjunction with the publication of our article on building the EMINA (Egyptian Mummies in North America) database in the Yearbook of Mummy Studies Volume 2 I am pleased to announce that the searchable web version of the database is now online (courtesy of Caroline and John Stoffel and Kathleen Haley and the Egyptologist’s Electronic Forum). The address for the website is www.egyptologyforum.org/EMINA/ . Although the database attempts to track over 70 access points for each mummy, not all the searches are yet available—however I will be very happy to send any information I have on a specific mummy which is not yet available in a search if you contact me at [email protected]. One search we will be adding as soon as possible is a mummy id search (each mummy or part has a unique identifier which will make it easier to find again). I look on this as a cooperative effort and I am particularly interested in adding information to the database such as names, occupations, wrappings and coffin information, as well as basic conservation information. There is a list of all the access points I am trying to document on the website. Please do not hesitate to give me information even if you think I do not have it. You may do so at [email protected] or on the New EMINA page. This database attempts to record every mummy or mummy part which has been documented to have come into North America through the present time. It was primarily constructed to serve as an aid for the writing of my book Mummies in Nineteenth Century America; Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts (McFarland 2009) but it soon grew far beyond the narrow confines of the book. One of the most important things it does do is record the provenance of each mummy. When you do a search, the provenance will come up in chronological order. I also hope to eventually link EMINA to other mummy databases.