Mummies Disease And Ancient Cultures

Author : Aidan Cockburn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589543
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures written by Aidan Cockburn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.

Author : Aidan Cockburn
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Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Mummies, Disease & Ancient Cultures written by Aidan Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aidan Cockburn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Download or read book Mummies, Disease, and Ancient Cultures written by Aidan Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Malam
Publisher : DK Children
ISBN 13 : 9780789479761
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummies and the Secrets of Ancient Egypt written by John Malam and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details how mummies were prepared and what they meant to the cultures that practiced mummification.

Author : Heather Pringle
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0786871865
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mummy Congress written by Heather Pringle and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mummies, experts, and breaking science revealed in journalist Pringle's fascinating dive into a little-known arena of human studies. Perhaps the most eccentric of all scientific meetings, the World Congress on Mummy Studies brings together mummy experts from all over the globe and airs their latest findings. Who are these scientists, and what draws them to this morbid yet captivating field? The Mummy Congress, written by acclaimed science journalist Heather Pringle, examines not just the world of mummies, but also the people obsessed with them.

Author : Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818261
Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book The Scientific Study of Mummies written by Arthur C. Aufderheide and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Roy Lee Moodie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Roentgenologic Studies of Egyptian and Peruvian Mummies written by Roy Lee Moodie and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Reid
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466870575
Total Pages : 331 pages
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Download or read book In Search of the Immortals written by Howard Reid and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course. In coastal Peru were the Chinchorros, whose mummifying culture flowered several millennia before Egypt's, and in the Andes were the Chachapoyas, the 'Cloud People,' a lost civilization which has only recently begun to be understood. In China's Taklamakan desert, the oddly-Caucasian looking people who established the Silk Route, which made possible the first trade between East and West, have left behind stunningly lifelike mummies. The ritually sacrificed bodies preserved in the peat bogs of northern Europe give us an extraordinary insight into life in the Dark Ages. And in the Canary Islands, perhaps most surprisingly of all, lived the Guanches, whose sophisticated mummification techniques - and whose cultural links with the Egyptians - Howard Reid explores here for the first time. Taking his extraordinary first-hand experiences of discovering and filming mummies all over the world as his starting point, Howard Reid brings these ancient cultures vividly to life. And in so doing, In Search of the Immortals comes to represent his personal quest to find an answer to that most epic and timeless of human problems: the meaning of death.

Author : Howard Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747262244
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Immortals written by Howard Reid and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course. In coastal Peru were the Chinchorros, whose mummifying culture flowered several millennia before Egypt's, and in the Andes were the Chachapoyas, the 'Cloud People, ' a lost civilization which has only recently begun to be understood. In China's Taklamakan desert, the oddly-Caucasian looking people who established the Silk Route, which made possible the first trade between East and West, have left behind stunningly lifelike mummies. The ritually sacrificed bodies preserved in the peat bogs of northern Europe give us an extraordinary insight into life in the Dark Ages. And in the Canary Islands, perhaps most surprisingly of all, lived the Guanches, whose sophisticated mummification techniques - and whose cultural links with the Egyptians - Howard Reid explores here for the first time. Taking his extraordinary first-hand experiences of discovering and filming mummies all over the world as his starting point, Howard Reid brings these ancient cultures vividly to life. And in so doing, "In Search of the Immortals" comes to represent his personal quest to find an answer to that most epic and timeless of human problems: the meaning of death.

Author : Françoise Dunand
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801444722
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummies and Death in Egypt written by Françoise Dunand and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.