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From the Forests of Punt to the Deserts of Saqqara: Life and Death as a...
by Suzanne Harvey Given the wealth of figurines, statues, engravings and even mummies of baboons found in Egypt, it may seem odd that a baboon skull features as an object in our current...
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Diagnosing Foreign Bodies
by Sarah Chaney One of the most important diagnostic tools to assist in foreign body removal was the development of the x-ray. In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen, a German physics professor, developed...
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Painted Skins & Butterfly Wings
by Gemma Angel When I first began my doctoral research into tattoo preservation three and a half years ago, I assumed that tattoo collections such as those held by the Science Museum in...
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Of Foetuses & Fibroids: the Accidental Foreign Body
by Lisa Plotkin As our current exhibition in UCL’s north cloisters demonstrates, “foreign bodies” may take many forms, as well as being continually redefined throughout history. Putting it...
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I have sung and praised the sun disc, I have joined the baboons
by Suzanne Harvey What links the evolution of language to the collection of baboon figurines at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology? I have previously speculated on the reasons why Ancient...
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Extraordinary Eaters: Swallowing Foreign Objects for a Living
by Sarah Chaney In 1935, Dr Isaac Lloyd Johnstone decided to publish a “case of unusual surgical and psychological interest” in the British Medical Journal. This concerned a patient he had...
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So Comfortable You Can’t Even Feel It! The Cocaine Tampon
by Lisa Plotkin Last May, a Utah woman was in for a surprise when she purchased a $1.99 box of tampons from a local store in Salt Lake City. Instead of a cotton tampon inside the...
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Was Helen of Troy a Natural Blonde?
by Tzu-i Liao Petrie Museum holds an extraordinary sample of pale yellow human hair, which is attached to a patch of scalp and entangled with darker curls that are most likely hair from a...
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Mythical Hybrids and Fantastic Beasts
by Gemma Angel I’m going to describe a creature, and you have to try and guess what it is, based on the following three clues: 1) it lays eggs; 2) it has venomous claws; and 3) it uses...
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Tattoos That Repel Venomous Creatures! The Tragic Tale of Prince Giolo
by Gemma Angel The tattooed body has been an object of spectacle and a source of fascination in Europe for at least 4 hundred years. Tattooed natives captured by European explorers were...
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