27291
Accession Number
33580
Title Of Article Chaper
A quest for ancient Egyptian air
Title Of Journal Book
Science
Volume
236
Pages
1419-1420
Collation
2 photos
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher City
Washington
ISSN
0193-4511
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Using specially designed equipment, a team of scientists plans to remove air samples from a hermetically sealed 4600-year-old Egyptian chamber. Their goal is to reproduce the environment they find to preserve the wooden boat removed from a nearly identical chamber in 1954. Only on display since 1971 the boat is already deteriorating. -- AATA
pub_id
27291