Author: Aidan Cockburn
Publisher: 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 Cockburn
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 & Ancient Cultures
Author: Aidan Cockburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mummies
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mummies
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Mummies, Disease, and Ancient Cultures
Mummies, disease, and ancient culture
Mummies, Disease and Ancient Culture, 2nd Edition
Mummies, Disease, and Ancient Cultures
Author: Paleopathology Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Scientific Study of Mummies
Author: Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818261
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818261
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Table of contents
Mummies, Diseases, and Ancient Cultures: Retrospect and Prospect
Roentgenologic Studies of Egyptian and Peruvian Mummies
Author: Roy Lee Moodie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258104580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258104580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In Search of the Immortals
Author: Howard Reid
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747262244
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747262244
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.