Quote of the day: Mummy's parents 'would be thrilled'

In a CNET News.com story published yesterday on new technology used in the virtual unwrapping of Sherit, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian child, a museum curator said her team wasn't just producing great science, "they've given Sherit an identity after 2,000 years of anonymity."

"We've brought her back to life," said Lisa Schwappach-Shirriff, of the Rosicrucian museum. "We're resurrected her. Her parents would be thrilled." Click here for full story.

[Karios Kasra]

I'll bet her parents would be overjoyed

I'd be thrilled too if my daughter were to be dug up and her carcass flayed open in public where anyone with a museum pass can come see her rotting remains.