Task 1:
I hope that everyone had fun yesterday on our field trip. Let’s reflect here a bit!
Write one paragraph as a reflection to our ROM field trip yesterday and try to include the following thoughts:
Why did you join this trip?
I joined this trip cause I very like visit the Museum, I like to know the history of different country.
What did you like the most?
Chinese cultural relics were my like the most.
What was the one thing that was completely new to you?
Yesterday I known about Djedmaatesankh,
Djedmaatesankh was an Egyptian woman from the city then known as Waset (known to the Greeks as Thebes, now natively known as Luxor) who died in the middle of the 9th century B.C. She was an ordinary middle-class woman and musician. [1] Her cartonnage coffin is thought to have been buried on the west bank of the Nile about 2,850 years ago.[2]The coffin and mummy of the lady Djedmaatesankh are part of the permanent collection of the Royal Ontario Museumin the Galleries of Africa: Egypt. The coffin was collected and brought to the ROM by Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, the Museum's first director, in the early 20th century.[3][4] Notably, the cartonnage of Djedmaatesankh is one of the best preserved of its period
Her cartonnage lists her husband's name as Pa-ankh-entef, which translates to "Life belongs to him (or "his)".[3] In 2009, (at Scholars’ Colloquium Days on November 7), Gayle Gibson, Rom Teacher & Egyptologist, and Stephanie Holowka, Technician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, presented evidence to support a theory that Paankhemamun, a mummy on display in the Art Institute of Chicago, is the husband of Djedmaatesankh. Gibson cited that the iconography on the two coffins are very similar and that Pa-ankh-entef would be an acceptable short form of Pa-ankh-en-amun. Holowka noted that scans that she performed showed that there were "peculiarities in the mummification process that the mummies also shared."
CT-scans performed on the body of Djedmaatesankh (in 1978 and 1994) have shown that she likely died of a dental abscess, which upon erupting, may have led to a fatal blood infection. The results of the scan as show a swelling of her left upper jaw, and a 3-D image inside her skull revealed a dental abscess, approximately one inch in diameter, which was caused by a diseased upper left incisor. It is likely that the abscess was there for several weeks prior to erupting and that the infection had spread to her upper left jaw bone, as the scan indicated that the bone was pitted with small holes. Additionally, high-resolution scans show tracks on the jawbone that are believed to be a result of unsuccessful attempts to drain the abscess.
What was/were the thing(s) that you did not like?
Nothing.
Would you like to go there again? Why?
I'd like to there more times, because there are so many things are I intresting in.
How this trip has added to your
