GO SEE IT: Mummies make a one-time East Coast cameo

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GO SEE IT: Mummies make a one-time East Coast cameo

POSTED: Friday, February 18, 2011, 5:00 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass Arts Events

Penn Museum

Beauty of Xiaohe

Have you ever seen a really fine mummy? Well, the "Beauty of Xiaohe," age 4,000 years, is giving new meaning to MILF (Mummy I'd like to find). Unearthed in 2003 in the desert sands of Chinag's Tarim Basin, she's finally made the trip to the East Coast, where she'll be on display at The Penn Museum's new exhibit, "Secrets of the Silk Road." Opening to the public today, the exhibition will showcase this startlingly well-preserved (not to mention good lookin') mummy "with graceful eyelashes," it's as if "she has just softly fallen to sleep," say the folks at Penn Museum. Okay, all creepiness aside, the exhibition is a once-in-a-4000-year-thing. Along with "the beauty," there will be more than a hundred objects representing life during the days of the Silk Road, including a smaller mummy and fragments of the famed, six-foot, six-inch "Yingpan Man" (if only the NBA has been more open to international players back then). Apparently, these artifacts made quite the splash in the archeology community, revealing the full swath of peoples that mingled via the Silk Road back in the days of the Han Dynasty (late second century BCE. to about 1400 CE). As far as present day politics, it seems there was some sort of "miscommunication" with China regarding the mummies' stop in Philly, the details of which the Penn Museum has decided to keep as shrouded as their embalmed buddies. But whatever the case, you can check out all the ancient knickknacks for the next month at the Penn Museum.

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