June 2020

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With this virtual event, CANA is meeting cremation, cemetery, and funeral professionals where they are—serving their communities safely through online platforms. Exhibits, networking, education, and fun packed into two days! REGISTER AS A VIRTUAL EXHIBITOR: Your virtual booth can display your company name and description with links to external sites, unlimited booth representatives, a logo banner image and an embedded YouTube video! SCHEDUL E all times in Central zone (CT) DAY ONE I Wednesday August 5 Welcome I Announcements I 1:30-2:00pm Keynote Address I 2-3:00pm Education Session 1 I 3-4:00 Trade Show, Networking 1 I 4-6:00pm DAY TWO I Thursday August 6 Trade Show and Networking 2 I 12-2:00pm Education Session 2 I 2-3:00pm Education Session 3 I 3-4:00pm Closing Remarks and Toast I 3:30-5:30pm $150 for non-members/ discounted for CANA Members AFFORDABLE ︶ ACCESSIBLE Virtually Anyone Can Attend! to remove 42 tons (38 metric tonnes) of packed sand from Shaft M 23-II. Their ef- forts revealed the purpose built chamber had strategically placed ventilation shafts and a large built-in incense burner that act- ed as an ancient air-conditioning and fumi- gation system, as well as drainage channels cut into the bedrock to funnel blood. Above ground, and 3 feet (1 meter) to the south of the workshop, they found two more facili- ties that were part of the funeral home in- cluding the 100 foot (30 meter) deep Shaft K 24 leading to six tombs containing a to- tal of 54 mummies. At the base of this shaft, they located a tomb containing five burial chambers but, beyond the visible rooms, it took them another year to discover a hidden sixth burial chamber with more mummies behind a false stone wall. In order to learn more about the con- tents of the tomb and those who worked and were buried there, the archaeological team used the latest technology to scan and capture as much data about the buri- al complex as possible, including: A med- ical CT scanner created a 3D digital rep- lica of the sacred canopic jars and their organic contents, a process that has only been performed on a handful of such jars; Advanced chemical testing on the liquids and labels of hundreds of pots in the work- shop revealed the ingredients that made up the recipe for mummification. This called into question the meaning of the Egyp- tian word ‘entiyu’ (‘ntyw), which experts had long thought meant ‘myrrh’, but new findings by the team suggest this substance was actually made from cedar resin likely imported frommodern day Lebanon; Us- ing a lightweight and mobile field kit to x- ray the mummies in their own 2,600 year old tombs allowed the fragile remains to be scanned with minimal damage; And the digital archaeology team attached to the dig was one of very using 3D scanning to create integrated models of underground areas. The data they captured will be used to create a virtual recreation so the tomb can be explored by anyone, even when its contents might have crumbled to dust. Kingdom of the Mummies is produced by BBC Studios for National Geographic. For BBC Studios, executive producers are Sarah Gibbs and Lisa Ausden. 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