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Page A32 JUNE 2020 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on A mymortuarycooler.com Are you state compliant? 2 cups cooked chicken, diced 3 potatoes, boiled and diced 3 hard-boiled eggs, diced 2 dill pickles, diced 1 tomato, diced 1 cucumber, peeled and diced 1 Tbs dried dill to taste 1 cup mayonnaise (or ½ mayo and ½ sour cream) Garnishes: sliced green onions, black olives In a large bowl, lightly toss all ingredients ex- cept garnishes, being careful not to mash the in- gredients. Add more mayo or sour cream if nec- essary to make a moist, creamy salad. Mound on a serving plate and garnish. Serves 6. Maybe a light supper? Good Eating! SALAD OLIVIER OPEN SESAME CHICKEN ¼ cup (½ stick) butter, melted Juice of 1 lemon 1/3 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese 1/3 cup breadcrumbs 1 3-pound chicken, skinned and cut into serving pieces 2 Tbs (¼ stick) butter, melted Paprika Sesame seeds Preheat oven to 325º. Grease a 2-quart rectangular baking dish. Combine ¼ cup melted butter with lemon juice in shal- low bowl. Mix cheese and breadcrumbs in shallow dish. Dip chicken pieces in but- ter mixture and then roll in breadcrumbs, coating well. Arrange in single layer baking dish. Drizzle remaining butter over chicken. Sprinkle generously with paprika and sesa- me seeds. Bake for 1 hour, basting frequent- ly. If chicken browns too quickly, cover dish with foil. Makes 4 servings. Memoires des choix des Jacque (Memories of Jack’s Recipes) Original Recipes from Dottie and Jack Frediani Shared by Kate Frediani-Gorman Cremation Products Inc. 800-837-0701 www.cremationproductsinc.com National Geographic Unveils Historic Find with Excavation of Ancient Egypt’s First Fully Intact Funeral Home part series Kingdom of the Mummies produced for Na- tional Geographic by BBC Studios follows the team as they explore the subterra- nean chambers and open four sealed, 2,600 year-old sarcophagi to unlock secrets forgotten since the age of the Pharaohs. Premiering Tuesday, May 12 on National Geograph- ic in the United States be- fore rolling out globally in 142 countries and 43 lan- guages, Kingdom of the Mummies tracks Dr. Hus- sein’s team, along with Egyptologist Professor Sa- lima Ikram from American University in Cairo, mum- my expert Dr. Stephen Buckley from University of York, digital archaeologist Dr. Matthias Lang from University of Tübingen, geoengineer Dr. Ayman Hamed of Suez University and paleoradiologist Pro- fessor Sahar Saleem from Cairo University, as they make a host of new finds and decipher clues about Egyptian burial processes. In addition to uncover- ing the first known fully integrated funeral complex with dedicated areas for organ removal, embalm- ing and burial, the team’s learning’s are helping reveal more about death - and the business of death - in an- cient Egypt. The latest sci- entific testing and scanning of the tombs, their relics and the remains of the de- ceased also add layers of meaning and context to the lessons being gleaned about the sacred rites and com- merce that were conducted in this subterranean space. “The tomb contains mum- mies of both rich and poor people, as well as evidence of the funeral packages and quality of goods on offer. The evidence we uncovered shows the embalmers had very good business sense. They re-used chambers and re-sold sarcophagi to max- imize the capacity of the complex,” said Dr. Hussein. Peeling back layer upon layer hidden within the fu- neral home, other key finds included: the first gild- ed silver mummy mask in Egypt since 1939. 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Cross the Bridge to make the BEST choice for your funeral service education—here’s why: ¥ Flexible programs with Campus and Online options starting 6X per year ¥ Affordable tuition with easy access to financial aid and grants ¥ Recognized by the Insight Institute as an Authorized Mortuary Education Provider so all PIMS students can become CERTIFIED CELEBRANTS ¥ Recently acknowledged by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 25 Trade, Technical, and Careers Schools in the USA ¥ Connect with one of the largest funeral service professional alumni networks in the country ¥ Apply your learning and gain Òhands onÓ experience in our new Restorative Art Lab as well as one of the busiest campus-based clinical embalming centers FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Tell them you saw their Ad WASHINGTON,DC— Na- tional Geographic has re- leased never-before-seen footage from within an- cient Egypt’s first known fully intact funeral home. In conjunction with Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a team of ar- chaeologists led by Dr. Ra- madan Hussein from Ger- many’s Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, un- covered the burial complex, dating back to 600 BC, deep beneath the sands at the Saqqara necropolis less than an hour’s drive south of Cairo. The new, four- vanced metalworking tech- nique that involves plating worked silver with a fine lay- er of gold, represented one step on the journey of the transformation of the dead into a god. In ancient Egypt silver was double the value of gold and non-invasive testing determined the sil- ver’s purity at 99.07 percent, higher even than Sterling Silver at 92.5 percent; The first mummy buried with an unprecedented six canopic jars holding organs, suggest- ing an entirely new form of burial. For thousands of years the standard number of these sacred vessels used to store the mummified or- gans of the dead was four, each guarded by a special god; evidence of a previously unknown cult worshipping a mysterious snake god- dess exists via inscriptions on three mummies identi- fy them as ‘Priests of Niut- Shaes’. While she is a pre- viously unknown, a symbol in her name says she took the form of a snake. Three priests indicate a dedicat- ed sect rather than isolated worshippers; two elite priests buried in the shaft were of Libyan descent. In just a few generations of their families moving to Egypt these im- migrants reached one of the highest ranks in Egyptian society, proof that ethnicity was no hurdle in multicul- tural Egypt where Greeks, Carians (from Southwest Asia), Phoenicians, Nubians and more existed side-by- side; one mummy was en- tombed with crossed arms in a divine position usu- ally reserved only for Pha- raohs. While surveying the 3D scan of one mummy, ‘Ayawet,’ Dr. Hussein spots the rare crossed arms on his, suggesting he could have been a priest of high status; And in a rare archaeologi- cal coincidence, two of the mummies might be mother and son, buried just 13 feet (4 meters) apart. A priest, ‘Tjanimit,’ named his moth- er, ‘Didi-Bastet’ on his sar- cophagus, while a canopic jar in the opposite chamber is inscribed with the hiero- glyphs for ‘Didi-Bastet’. In order to reach the work- shop 40 feet (12.5 meters) below the surface, Dr. Hus- sein and his team first had Continued on Page A33