DK Eyewitness Guides: Mummy by James Putnam

DK Eyewitness Guides: Mummy by James Putnam

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"Eyewitness Guides" are a series of illustrated information books which integrate photographs with explanatory illustrations, maps, charts and text. This book looks at mummified remains, ancient Egypt and Rome, China, Peru and Greenland, materials, cases, tombs and treasure.

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DK Eyewitness Guides: Mummy by James Putnam

People have always wanted to live forever. This superb collection of photographs brings the story of how the ancient Egyptians and many other societies around the world preserved their dead as well as the facts about ancient bodies accidentally preserved by ice and sand vividly to life. Learn how different societies prepared for death and see the bodies that escaped the ravages of time from a man sacrificed and thrown into a bog in England in 300 B.C. to a woman freeze-dried in a cave in Greenland over 500 years ago. As well as mummies their wrappings and decorated cases X-rays and 3-D CAT scans get beneath the bandages and under the skin to reveal some surprising secrets about life - and death - lng ago. Produced in association with the British Museum Mummy is a unique and compelling introduction to mummified bodies and what they tell us about our past.
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ISBN 13 9780751360073
ISBN 10 0751360074
Title DK Eyewitness Guides: Mummy
Author James Putnam
Series Dk Eyewitness
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Year published 1997-11-13
Number of pages 64
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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