Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Mummies written by Bob Brier and published by Sutton Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever wanted to know about what mummies are, who they were, and how they came to be mummies.
Download or read book Mummies around the World written by Matt Cardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena. Mortality and death have always fascinated humankind. Civilizations from all over the world have practiced mummification as a means of preserving life after death—a ritual which captures the imagination of scientists, artists, and laypeople alike. This comprehensive encyclopedia focuses on all aspects of mummies: their ancient and modern history; their scientific study; their occurrence around the world; the religious and cultural beliefs surrounding them; and their roles in literary and cinematic entertainment. Author and horror guru Matt Cardin brings together 130 original articles written by an international roster of leading scientists and scholars to examine the art, science, and religious rituals of mummification throughout history. Through a combination of factual articles and topical essays, this book reviews cultural beliefs about death; the afterlife; and the interment, entombment, and cremation of human corpses in places like Egypt, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Additionally, the book covers the phenomenon of natural mummification where environmental conditions result in the spontaneous preservation of human and animal remains.
Download or read book Mummies written by Adam Woog and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of mummies.
Download or read book Mummies Around the World written by Matt Cardin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Please see the attached text file"--
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Preserved People written by Natalie Jane Prior and published by Crown Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia of facts about preserved people from around the world, including Egyptian mummies, bog bodies, Einstein's brain, and the Ice Man.
Download or read book A History of Egyptian Mummies written by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egyptian Mummies written by Delia Pemberton and published by Harcourt Brace. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book A history of Egyptian Mummies and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians written by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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: 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.
Download or read book Egyptian Mummy written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 A History of Egyptian Mummies written by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mummified written by Angela Stienne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. This book takes you on a journey from Paris to London, Leicester and Manchester, from the apothecaries of the Middle Ages to the dissecting tables of the eighteenth century, and finally behind the screen of today’s computers, to revisit the stories of these bodies that have fascinated Europeans for so long. Mummified investigates matters of life and death, of collecting and viewing, and of interactions – sometimes violent and sometimes emotional – that question the essence of what makes us human.
Download or read book Scanning the Pharaohs written by Zahi A. Hawass and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process and objects placed within the wrappings. Using the latest technology, including Multi-Detector Computed Tomography and DNA analysis, the authors present the results of the examination of the royal mummies. New imaging techniques not only reveal a wealth of information about each mummy, but render amazingly lifelike and detailed images of the remains.
Download or read book A History of Egyptian Mummies written by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egyptian Mummies written by Jim Pipe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mummies written by Elizabeth Carney and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes mummies, both natural and man-made.
