Michael C. Carlos Museum
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum is administered by Emory University on its campus in DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia.
The Carlos Museum has the largest collections in the Southeast United States of objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The collections are housed in a Michael Graves designed building which is open to the public.
The museum is named after Atlanta philanthropist Michael C. Carlos, chairman of a wine and spirits wholesaler, the National Distributing Company. Carlos donated nearly twenty million dollars over two decades to the museum that bears his name. He died in December 2002 at the age of 75.[1]
In 1999, the Carlos Museum purchased an unidentified male mummy that some thought could be an New Kingdom pharaoh. Through research and collaboration with Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to identify the mummy as pharaoh Ramesses I. The museum returned the mummy to Egypt in 2003 as a gift of goodwill and international cultural cooperation.
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- ^ Emory Magazine, Winter 2003. Remembering Museum Benefactor Michael C. Carlos. Retrieved on August 7, 2006.
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