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By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Eyewitness books ; 44Publication details: New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000.Description: 63 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 078945856X
  • 0789458578 (trade pbk.)
  • 1590546210
Other title:
  • Eyewitness Mummy [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 393/.3 21
LOC classification:
  • GT3340 .P87 2000
Contents:
What are mummies? -- Natural mummies -- Land lost in time -- Egyptian Book of the Dead -- Making a mummy -- Wrapping up -- Mummy masks -- Amulets and magic charms -- Mummy cases -- Into the sarcophagus -- Taking it with you -- Workers for the afterlife -- Mummy and the god Osiris -- Royal mummies -- Treasures of Tutankhamun -- Curse of the mummy -- Greek and Roman mummies -- Animal mummies -- Unwrapping the mummy's secrets -- Mummies of the Andes -- Iceman -- Bog mummies -- Mummies of Sicily -- Other mummies.
Summary: Documents the history and significance of mummies, both natural and man-made, and describes the principles and ceremonies associated with them.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
JNF JNF Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction J 393.3 PUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) GT3340 .P87 2000 1 Available 34517000311822

"DK Eyewitness books"--at head of title.

Includes index.

What are mummies? -- Natural mummies -- Land lost in time -- Egyptian Book of the Dead -- Making a mummy -- Wrapping up -- Mummy masks -- Amulets and magic charms -- Mummy cases -- Into the sarcophagus -- Taking it with you -- Workers for the afterlife -- Mummy and the god Osiris -- Royal mummies -- Treasures of Tutankhamun -- Curse of the mummy -- Greek and Roman mummies -- Animal mummies -- Unwrapping the mummy's secrets -- Mummies of the Andes -- Iceman -- Bog mummies -- Mummies of Sicily -- Other mummies.

Documents the history and significance of mummies, both natural and man-made, and describes the principles and ceremonies associated with them.

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