Mummy (Eyewitness Books)
(From Amazon): Photographed in full color. Unwrap hair-raising facts about natural and man-made mummies! Here is a look at how bodies were prepared, why ancient cultures made mummies, and how bog and ice mummies were preserved by freak climatic conditions.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0679838813
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 24
- Pages
- 63
- Publisher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Copyright
- 1993
Chapters
- 1 What are mummies
- 2 Natural mummies
- 3 A land lost in time
- 4 The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- 5 Making a mummy
- 6 Wrapping up
- 7 Mummy masks
- 8 Amulets and magic charms
- 9 Mummy cases
- 10 Into the sarcophagus
- 11 Taking it with you
- 12 Workers for the afterlife
- 13 The mummy and the god Osiris
- 14 The royal mummies
- 15 The treasures of Tutankhamun
- 16 Curse of the mummy
- 17 Greek and Roman mummies
- 18 Animal mummies
- 19 Unwrapping the mummy's secrets
- 20 Mummies of the Andes
- 21 The Iceman
- 22 Bog mummies
- 23 The mummies of Sicily
- 24 Other mummies
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