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While on my trip to NYC to see the Mets game in August 2001, I spent a rainy afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art which has a huge Egyptian art exhibit including a large display of mummies, mummy cases, and an Egyptian temple which stood for centuries at Abu Simbel.  The exhibit takes your breath away as you'll see in the pictures below. 

The exhibit makes you feel like you were helping the royal undertakers in Egypt.  Keeping that thought in mind, here's what the mummy would look like as you moved to help put it into the mummy case.

Now that you're helping to lug the mummy across the undertaker's shop, it's time to start putting it into the various inter-fitting mummy cases.

Whew, that's heavy work, but we got it done...including getting the head at the right end so it's near where the eyes are painted on the side of the outermost casket before we put it into the mummy case.

Now if this process of mummification was actually happening as it did in ancient Egypt, a team of slaves would drag the mummy in its multiple cases on a oxen-pulled sledge to its temple for burial.  One such temple, from the Abu Simbel region of Egypt, appears within the MOMA.

I think you've all heard me brag that my alma mater, Southern Illinois University, adopted the Saluki dog as its mascot and that the Saluki goes back to ancient times in Egypt.  Well, to win those bragging rights, I searched the MOMA until I found some Saluki pictures from the inside of a pyramid!

Quit shaking your head--that's a Saluki!  Here's a close-up picture.

Okay, don't take my word for it--visit this link at the American Kennel Club to double-check me!

A big wave to my brother, Joe, who knows the city well and made sure I had good directions to get to this exhibit!