Download or read book Mummies Their Mysteries written by Charlotte Wilcox and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses mummies found around the world, including Peru, Denmark, and the Italian Alps, and explains how studying them provides clues to past ways of life.
Download or read book Mummies Bones and Body Parts written by Charlotte Wilcox and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the wide variety of human remains, the use and abuse of them, what they reveal about life in the past, and contemporary attitudes toward the dead.
Download or read book The Mummy s Curse written by Lisa Owings and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after discovering the tomb of King Tut, several people on the expedition became sick and died. Many people thought the ancient Egyptians cursed those who entered the tombs. Was King Tut getting revenge from the grave? Read this high-interest title for young students and decide what you think.
Download or read book Mummies and Their Mysteries written by Charlotte Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mysteries of the Mummy Kids written by Kelly Milner Halls and published by Darby Creek. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about child mummies from the Incas and other ancient civilizations around the world, plus a Civil War-era mummy from the United States.
Download or read book Mummies written by Christopher Sloan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigate mysteries from the grave in this creepy-fun compendium of the world's most fascinating mummies. Learn what the experts have discovered about each mummy's life and death.
Download or read book Mummies and Death in Egypt written by Françoise Dunand and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has the benefit of all the methods and means at the disposal of forensic medicine. The 'mummy stories' we tell have changed their tone, but they have enjoyed much success, with fantastic scientific and technological results resolving the mysteries of the ancient land of the pharaohs."--from the Foreword Mummies are the things that fascinate us most about ancient Egypt. But what are mummies? How did the Egyptians create them? And why? What became of the people they once were? We are learning more all the time about the cultural processes surrounding mummification and the medical characteristics of ancient Egyptian mummies. In the first part of Mummies and Death in Egypt Françoise Dunand gives an overview of the history of mummification in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Roman period. She thoroughly describes the preparations of the dead (tombs and their furnishings, funerary offerings, ornamentation of the corpse, coffins, and canopic jars), and she includes a separate chapter on the mummification of animals. She links these various practices and behaviors to the religious beliefs of classical Egypt. In the second part of this book, Roger Lichtenberg, a physician and archaeologist, offers a fascinating narrative of his forensic research on mummies, much of it conducted with a portable X-ray machine on archaeological digs. His findings have revealed new information on the ages of the mummified, their causes of death, and the illnesses and injuries they suffered. Together, Dunand and Lichtenberg provide a state-of-the-art account of the science of mummification and its social and religious context.
Download or read book Mummies written by Edith Kunhardt and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Ramses II, the powerful king of ancient Egypt, was made into a mummy after his death.
Download or read book Scooby Doo and the Truth Behind Mummies written by Mark Weakland and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The popular Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang teach kids all about mummies"--
Download or read book Mystery of the Egyptian Mummy written by Scott Peters and published by Best Day Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for page-flipping thrills & chills.Because every kid loves an ancient adventure!When 12-year-old Zet finds himself face-to-face with a mummy, his eyes almost pop out of his head. Why is a mummy haunting his front door? Talk about goosebumps! What does the scary monster want? Zet calls an urgent meeting with his 11-year-old sister Kat and best friend Hui. If they don¿t solve the mystery of the wandering mummy fast, things will get downright creepy in their hometown of Thebes. Clues send them tiptoeing into ancient tombs and frantically paddling up and down the Nile on a wild mummy chase. They soon suspect that this will be their spookiest mystery ever!
Download or read book Mummy Mysteries written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents various accounts of mummies found throughout North America and what these bodies reveal about the times in which they lived.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Albany Mummies written by Peter Lacovara and published by Albany Institute of History and Art. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies joined an American museum collection. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and best remembered of the museum’s collections. The story of their discovery in the tombs at Deir el-Bahri and their subsequent purchase by Brown, transport by steamship from Cairo to New York City, and steamboat travel to Albany was covered extensively by the Albany newspapers, and visitors from school-aged children to senior citizens often recount stories about their first encounter with the Albany mummies. The Mystery of the Albany Mummies tells the fascinating tale of these two mummies, from their initial mummification in ancient Egypt, to their acquisition by the AIHA in 1909, and finally to 2013, when the mystery of their identities was uncovered through the intersection of historical scholarship, science, and technology. In the book, which draws on the Institute’s 2013–2014 exhibition “GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany Mummies,” scholars from around the world use new scholarship, scientific methods, and medical technology to determine the ages, sexes, occupations, and lifestyles of these two ancient denizens of the AIHA. Peter Lacovara is Director of the Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund, and was previously Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Assistant Curator in the Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is the author of many books, including The World of Ancient Egypt: A Daily Life Encyclopedia. Sue H. D’Auria is an Egyptologist who worked for nearly two decades in the Egyptian Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was an Associate Curator at the Huntington Museum of Art. She has edited several books, including Offerings to the Discerning Eye: An Egyptological Medley in Honor of Jack A. Josephson.
Download or read book Mummies written by Sarah Tieck and published by Big Buddy Books. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out all about mummies historically and around the world.
Download or read book Pyramids and Mummies written by Anne Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of pharaohs, mummies, and untapped secrets in this pyramid-shaped book sure to interest the explorer in everyone.
Download or read book Mummies Unwrapped written by N. B. Grace and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the wide variety of ancient human corpses that are found, how they were preserved, and what archeologists can learn from them.
Download or read book Mummies written by Shelley Tanaka and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the latest mummy finds from different cultures, climates, and time periods.
Download or read book Mummies And Their Mysteries written by Charlotte Wilcox and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses mummies found around the world, including ones in Peru, Denmark, and the Italian Alps, and explains how studying them provides clues to past ways of life.
