Posted on 08/03/2024 10:02:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and overseer of royal works—and reputedly, lover—of the famed queen Hatschepsut (1479–1458 BCE). Beneath Senmut's tomb, they found a separate burial chamber for his mother, Hat-Nufer, and other unidentified relatives.
Here, they made an uncanny discovery: a wooden coffin holding the mummy of an elderly woman, wearing a black wig and two scarab rings in silver and gold. But what struck the archaeologists was the mummy's expression: with the mouth wide open, as if locked in a scream. They dubbed her the "Screaming Woman."
Now, approximately 2,500 years after her burial, researchers from Egypt have used the most advanced scientific techniques to examine the Screaming Woman and learn about her life and death. The results are published in Frontiers in Medicine...
Until 1998, the Screaming Woman had been kept at Kasr Al Ainy School of Medicine in Cairo, where in the 1920s and 1930s researchers studied many royal mummies, including Tutankhamun. Subsequently, she was moved to the Cairo Egyptian Museum at the request of the Ministry of Antiquities. Ever since 1935, the mummy's coffin and rings have been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
In the new study, Saleem used CT scans to "virtually dissect" the mummy and estimate her age, identify pathologies, and state of preservation.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Great classic Roger Corman directed horror movie The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price had a similar ending. He was deranged and believed he was a relative from the Inquisition but in real life his evil wife Barbara Steele had cheated on him. In the end she was put in the iron maiden with spikes in her as she screamed, buried alive. Her wide eyes were the last things seen in the fade to end credits.
From Filmfredonia:
The ending is technically happy as the good guys stumble away unharmed, and yet Corman saves up one of the most coldly ironic final shots in horror film history, as Catherine, Francis, and Maximillian leave the dungeon. “No-one shall enter this room again,” Catherine vows, only for Corman to veer his camera back to the iron maiden from which the gagged Elizabeth stares in silent mortification, doomed to the nastiest possible punishment for her crime. The ritualistic final quote direct from Poe that ends the film ironically fills in a description of the very sound Elizabeth can’t make: the primal scream of purgative fear.
Barbara Steele was also put into a spiked iron maiden in Mario Bava's Black Sunday.
Should have said to the screenwriter:
“Hey, I got the point. All of them.”
Thanks, never heard of the Mario Brava Black Sunday one.
Is it any good?
The Screaming Meemies
Slick Willy has a thing for mummies, but even he would have passed on that one.
Hillary!
I’m confused by what I read. First it said the woman died 3,500 years ago; then it said she was buried 2,500 years ago. What happened to her during the 1,000-year gap?
It’s also the film that made Barbara Steele into a horror icon.
The screaming woman also reminds me of another Poe story where a man builds a wall only he’s on the wrong side of the wall. Or maybe that is a Twilight Zone rendition. “The Cask of Amontillado” sounds like it, but in reading summaries, it doesn’t seem that the wall builder is on the wrong side.
It’s just when it comes to screaming women, I can see building a wall regardless of which side you end up on.
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One of Kamala’a ancestresses?
Vincent Van Gogh’s inspiration.
The jaw drops with gravity after death, and the eyes squint.
“Scream” was blurted out by a young girl when I asked what product to use to remove stains from clothes.
But I think the product she meant was “Shout”
Great movie. Price is at the top of his game, the final scene in the Pit is spectacular.
I would guess pulling her organs out through her nasal passages might be noticeble if you are conscious.
wy69
I would guess pulling her organs out through her nasal passages might be noticeble if you are conscious.
wy69
Another great shocker! This movie scared the yell out of me as a kid. Besides the horror, I also appreciate the Christian themes.
Either that or somebody left the seat up.
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