Mummified

Mummified

Author: Angela Stienne

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-06-07

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1526161907

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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.


Mummies Made in Egypt

Mummies Made in Egypt

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Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781435245549

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Describes the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.


Mummies and Death in Egypt

Mummies and Death in Egypt

Author: Françoise Dunand

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780801444722

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"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.


divine creatures

divine creatures

Author: salima ikram

Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9789774248580

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The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. This book draws together studies on the different types of animal mummies, the methods of mummification, and the animal cemeteries located at sites throughout Egypt.


Cat Mummies

Cat Mummies

Author: Kelly Trumble

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 1996-08-16

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0547562640

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Clearly written text offers an answer to the question of why ancient Egyptians mummified thousands and thousands of cats. An easy-to-understand introduction to ancient Egyptian history.


Mummies

Mummies

Author: Christopher Sloan

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1426306962

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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.