This fun factoid might show that not even the people living in Oklahoma know everything about Oklahoma.

A museum in Shawnee is home to a pair of Sooner State mummies.

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While the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art may be known more for their 3500-piece collection of fine art from over the last 6000 years, the main talking point is the Egyptian collection now on display.

Some outlets have described this collection as containing "some of the most unique artifacts from Egyptian history." To tell the truth, the mummies are just the cherry on top.

The famous one named Tutu - AKA - Princess Menne - is adorned in all the fanciness you'd expect of an Egyptian mummified around 332 BCE. The guilded cartonnage face covering, missing organs, everything you'd envision of ancient Egyptian culture.

The other mummy on display is from a different period of time, over five hundred years later. She's an anonymous mummy with all of her organs still intact. It's believed that she either didn't have the social status to have her organs removed and jarred, or perhaps, being the second century AD, as Roman influence flowed into Egypt, the practice of jarring organs became rare when Egyptians adopted a more modern burial practice.

It's really pretty interesting. They have a bunch of art and artifacts on display too, and they're open during this pandemic. Tickets are limited, you must wear a mask, and social distance is paramount, but they are open for visitors. Here's the link to the official website for more information.

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