Day 3- Kenyan National Museum

These are some of the skulls that the Kenyan
National Museum have on exhibit.

After we were down in Kibera, Kentice set up a visit to the National Museum. Once we arrived there, we met Dr. Emma Mbua. She is a paleoanthropologist at the museum. The museum has the finest collection of human remains than just about any other museum in Africa. Only about 5,000 individuals have contributed to the amount of fossils in the world and 500 of these fossils are in the Kenyan Museum. There is a very special room in the museum called the Strong Room. It has heavy metal doors and usually non- specialists are not allowed in there, so when they allowed me in, I was honored. Dr. Mbua showed me many different skulls that came from millions of years ago. The most amazing artifact by far was a 19- million- year- old skull. The skull belonged to an ape known as a proconsul. I was amazed by how well it was preserved. Dr. Mbua saw my excitement and invited me to go with her to the Great Rift Valley tomorrow! It is getting late and I better get my sleep tonight. Tomorrow is going to be a long and exciting day! Bye.