Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/19/chicagos-field-museum-mummies_n_1287702.html

02/19/12 01:43 PM ET Associated Press

CHICAGO -- Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the World's Columbian Exposition, held in the city in 1893.

The exhibit is called "Opening the Vaults: Mummies" and runs Feb. 17 through April 22. It features more than 20 mummies from Egypt and Peru, including complete humans and animals. snip

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[jberryhill]

1. Live Dead People!

How galling... To be left in repose for thousands of years, only to end up on display in Chicago.

At least it's not Baltimore.

[grasswire]

2. why hide things away like this for 120 years?

Shouldn't there be displays more periodically than that? At least every thirty years, so citizens would have a chance of seeing the stuff in a lifetime.

[surrealAmerican]

3. I agree ...

... the Field Museum, and others, have huge collections that are rarely seen. I can only guess that they exhibit whatever is most likely to bring visitors through their doors, so some of their holdings are seen only very rarely.

[undeterred]

5. Maybe one of the archaeologists was a hoarder.

All this stuff was in his attic and it came crashing down.