Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Draper Middle School students, from left, McKenzie Kane, Taylor Horton, Ronnie Zadrozny, Nick Esposito, Paul Egan and Amanda Welch unearth Friday morning the chicken mummies they buried in November in the Rotterdam school's courtyard as they learned about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques.