MUMMY HEAD FOUND IN BEVERLY HILLS!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) May 11, 2006 -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jake Chait
310.285.0182
jake@chait.com
www.chait.com

EXTINCT SEA MONSTER & AUTHENTIC MUMMY HEAD FOUND IN BEVERLY HILLS!

Amazing paleontological finds:

� An Ichthyosaur with a baby Ichthyosaur inside its stomach!
� An Egyptian mummy head!
� A virtually complete dinosaur skull!
� Ten-foot tall fully mounted fossil cave bear!
� A piece of the moon and the planet Mars!

Beverly Hills, February 24, 2006 -- These amazing and extremely rare discoveries are but a small sampling of the magnificent treasures soon to be on display at I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers in Beverly Hills. On May 21st, 2006, scores of museum-quality gems and minerals, meteorites, fossils and dinosauria will be auctioned off during what promises to be one of the most exciting natural history sales to date. The world-renowned gallery, in association with prominent Natural History Specialist Mr. David Herskowitz, currently holds the record for the second-highest price paid for a natural history specimen at auction. �The offerings in this sale are by far some of the rarest and highest quality. I am confident that the public will be ecstatic with the surprises the sale has in store,� said Isadore Chait, president of the auction house.

The May sale offers an amazing and extremely rare, 190 million year old, virtually complete fossil Ichthyosaur carrying a baby that is clearly visible and defined. There are no known examples of this fossil outside museums. In fact, there are only around six specimens of this kind in existence and all are in European museums.

EGYPTIAN NOBILITY MUMMIFIED IN BEVERLY HILLS!

Around 2600 BCE, during the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties in the dry Egyptian air, special priests gathered boxes or canopic jars around newly-deceased pharaohs, nobility, and members of the upper-echelons of Egyptian society. The priests proceeded to extract the brain of the deceased with fine hooked instruments through the nostrils, then the organs in the chest and abdomen from an incision made on the left side. The stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines were placed in individual jars for preservation, leaving only the heart, which was believed to be the center of the person�s being. The priests followed by removing all the moisture from the body, then wrapping the body in hundreds of yards of linen. Thus began the ancient tradition of embalming, or mummification.

The sale offers a well-preserved authentic Egyptian mummy head from the Ptolemaic period of Egypt. This remarkable specimen is complete and displays the original wrappings over the top of the head. Still attached to the head is part of the neck region with several cervical vertebrae. This specimen is beautifully
prepared, exhibiting no distortion, thereby indicating that this may have been a high status individual.

The Natural History auction will be held on Sunday, May 21, 2006, at 1:00 PM PST. The auction offers in-room, absentee, phone, and live on-line bidding. I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers is located at 9330 Civic Center Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 90210. For more information, please contact (310) 285-0182, or visit www.chait.com