Hi Harby,
I can't shed any light on you questions, but it sounds like a great
investigation. As you can imagine we don't have many mummys in
Australia. Good luck in your search.
Bridie

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  Hi everyone
      I have the pleaure e-mailing yours, and I have big question, I am
Ph.D student my work about ( Enzymes application for textiles ) , I have
samples from linen textiles that used as a band cover and enfold the
mummy from ancient egypt , i will make analysis for natural resins that
are on textiles enfold to choose suitable ezyme for cleaning .
   are anyone have idea or information about :-
  1) what kind of analysis suitable for this .
  2) what kind of resins that expected be on my samples.
     accept my deep thanks
           Harby Ezzeldeen
     M.A in textiles conservation.
     Conservation depatment - Cairo univeristy .
    Ph.D holder in biochemical department
    National techical Univeristy of athens.




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