{"id":1475,"date":"2015-05-28T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2015-05-28T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:08:40","slug":"archaeologists-help-restore-the-mummy-of-a-village-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/archaeologists-help-restore-the-mummy-of-a-village-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists help restore the mummy of a village chief."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people think archaeologists spend all their time hip-deep in pits excavating, but much of what archaeologists do is modern preservation work. \u00a0In this case, the archaeologists travelled to Papua New Guinea to help local villagers patch up the mummy. \u00a0For example, crushed Suca shell has the pH of bleach and helped keep lichen from growing on the mummy. \u00a0The Anga people consult with their mummified ancestors to ask advice. \u00a0Hopefully, archaeologists can help them protect their ancestors so this ancient practice may continue. \u00a0READ MORE:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mummies-oiwa-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1476\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mummies-oiwa-Papua-New-Guinea-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"mummies-oiwa--Papua New Guinea\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mummies-oiwa-Papua-New-Guinea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mummies-oiwa-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/50948-photos-smoked-mummies-papua-new-guinea.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/50948-photos-smoked-mummies-papua-new-guinea.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people think archaeologists spend all their time hip-deep in pits excavating, but much of what archaeologists do is modern preservation work. \u00a0In this case, the archaeologists travelled to Papua New Guinea to help local villagers patch up the mummy. \u00a0For example, crushed Suca shell has the pH of bleach and helped keep lichen from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,66,269,268,267,94,96,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mummies-oiwa-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}