Tag: Ralph Mitchell

  • Nation & World

    Case of the rotting mummies

    Chilean preservationists have turned to a Harvard scientist with a record of solving mysteries around threatened cultural artifacts.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tut, tut!

    Ralph Mitchell, a Harvard professor and authority on cultural heritage microbiology, investigates “fingerprints” left on the walls of Egyptian King Tutankhamen’s tomb by ancient microbes.

    5 minutes