Be an eyewitness to the amazing secrets of ancient mummies from different countries and cultures – from the embalmed dead of Egypt to bodies preserved in bogs and ice.
Introduction
This exciting and informative guide contains superb colour photographs of preserved bodies, from the hunter who froze to death 5,300 years ago to the mummy of Ramses the Great, and offers a unique 'eyewitness' view of how and why mummification developed. See the unwrapped bodies of Egyptian pharoahs; a Chinese princess buried in a suit of jade; a mummy that became a movie star; and a Peruvian mummy from high in the Andes.
Learn how bog people were sacrificed; why one 5,000-year-old mummy is called Ginger; and how modern technology can tell us this by seeing inside closed mummy cases. Discover where Lenin is on show; how Sicilian monks buried their dead; what started the story of the mummy's curse; the glittering treasures of Tutankamun.
The book also features a detailed reference section, a wallchart and a CD of 100 clipart.
Product details
Format: Adobe eBook
ISBN: 9781405342346
Publication date: 02 Mar 2009
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Mummy
£7.99
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