Author: Aidan CockburnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.
Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
Author: Aidan CockburnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.
Mummies, Disease, and Ancient Cultures
Author: Aidan CockburnMummies, Disease & Ancient Cultures
Author: Aidan CockburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mummies
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Mummies, disease, and ancient culture
Author: Mummies, Disease and Ancient Culture, 2nd Edition
Author: Mummies, Disease, and Ancient Cultures
Author: Paleopathology AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Scientific Study of Mummies
Author: Arthur C. AufderheidePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818261
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
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Mummies and Death in Egypt
Author: Françoise DunandPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801444722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"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.
The Handbook of Mummy Studies
Author: Dong Hoon ShinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789811533532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1171
Book Description
Owing to their unique state of preservation, mummies provide us with significant historical and scientific knowledge of humankind’s past. This handbook, written by prominent international experts in mummy studies, offers readers a comprehensive guide to new understandings of the field’s most recent trends and developments. It provides invaluable information on the health states and pathologies of historic populations and civilizations, as well as their socio-cultural and religious characteristics. Addressing the developments in mummy studies that have taken place over the past two decades – which have been neglected for as long a time – the authors excavate the ground-breaking research that has transformed scientific and cultural knowledge of our ancient predecessors. The handbook investigates the many new biotechnological tools that are routinely applied in mummy studies, ranging from morphological inspection and endoscopy to minimally invasive radiological techniques that are used to assess states of preservation. It also looks at the paleoparasitological and pathological approaches that have been employed to reconstruct the lifestyles and pathologic conditions of ancient populations, and considers the techniques that have been applied to enhance biomedical knowledge, such as craniofacial reconstruction, chemical analysis, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA analysis. This interdisciplinary handbook will appeal to academics in historical, anthropological, archaeological and biological sciences, and will serve as an indispensable companion to researchers and students interested in worldwide mummy studies.
A History of Egyptian Mummies
Author: Thomas Joseph PettigrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description