(PLEASE HOLD PHOTO FOR USE SATURDAY, Feb. 10, 2018). This undated photograph shows an Egyptian mummy and its sarcophagus, which are star attractions at Earlham College's Joseph Moore Museum in Richmond, Ind. The museum recently received $4,600 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for design work on a temperature-controlled storage case that will help preserve the ancient relic and its colorfully-painted sarcophagus. Once the design work is done, the museum will seek funding to build the case. "Lady Ta'an" was the daughter of an Egyptian priest. She lived between 300 B.C. and 30 B.C. (Mark Brim/Earlham College via AP)
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RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) - An Egyptian mummy that's a star attraction at an eastern Indiana college's museum is closer to getting a climate-controlled chamber that will help preserve the ancient relic.
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded Earlham College's Joseph Moore Museum more than $4,600 for design work on the temperature-controlled storage case.
Once the design work is done, the museum will seek funding to build the case that will preserve the mummy and her colorfully-painted sarcophagus.
The mummy is that of "Lady Ta'an," who was the daughter of an Egyptian priest. She lived between 300 and 30 B.C.
Lady Ta'an arrived in 1889 at the Richmond campus about 65 miles east of Indianapolis. She survived a 1924 fire and is believed to be one of only two mummies in Indiana.
(PLEASE HOLD PHOTO FOR USE SATURDAY, Feb. 10, 2018). This undated photograph shows a detail of the sarcophagus of "Lady Ta'an," an Egyptian mummy that's a star attraction at Earlham College's Joseph Moore Museum in Richmond, Ind. The museum recently received $4,600 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for design work on a temperature-controlled storage case that will help preserve the ancient relic and its colorfully-painted sarcophagus. Once the design work is done, the museum will seek funding to build the case. "Lady Ta'an" was the daughter of an Egyptian priest. She lived between 300 B.C. and 30 B.C. (Mark Brim, Earlham College via AP)
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