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Author: Charlotte Wilcox Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 0876147678 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 74
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Discusses mummies found around the world, including Peru, Denmark, and the Italian Alps, and explains how studying them provides clues to past ways of life.
Author: Charlotte Wilcox Publisher: Millbrook Press ISBN: 0876147678 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 74
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Discusses mummies found around the world, including Peru, Denmark, and the Italian Alps, and explains how studying them provides clues to past ways of life.
Author: Peter Lacovara Publisher: Albany Institute of History and Art ISBN: 1438469500 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 156
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In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and best remembered of the museum's collections. The story of their discovery in the tombs at Deir el-Bahri and their subsequent purchase by Brown, transport by steamship from Cairo to New York City, and steamboat travel to Albany was covered extensively by the Albany newspapers, and visitors from school-aged children to senior citizens often recount stories about their first encounter with the Albany mummies. The Mystery of the Albany Mummies tells the fascinating tale of these two mummies, from their initial mummification in ancient Egypt, to their acquisition by the AIHA in 1909, and finally to 2013, when the mystery of their identities was uncovered through the intersection of historical scholarship, science, and technology. In the book, which draws on the Institute's 2013–2014 exhibition "GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany Mummies," scholars from around the world use new scholarship, scientific methods, and medical technology to determine the ages, sexes, occupations, and lifestyles of these two ancient denizens of the AIHA.
Author: Lisa Owings Publisher: Bellwether Media ISBN: 1681030144 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Shortly after discovering the tomb of King Tut, several people on the expedition became sick and died. Many people thought the ancient Egyptians cursed those who entered the tombs. Was King Tut getting revenge from the grave? Read this high-interest title for young students and decide what you think.
Author: Kelly Milner Halls Publisher: Darby Creek ISBN: 9781581960594 Category : Children Languages : en Pages : 0
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Learn about child mummies from the Incas and other ancient civilizations around the world, plus a Civil War-era mummy from the United States.
Author: Martin Widmark Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0448480751 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 82
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When a night watchman claims that he saw the mummy at the art museum walking around on the same night a valuable painting was stolen, Jerry and Maya are summoned by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the spooky mystery.
Author: N. B. Grace Publisher: Franklin Watts ISBN: 9780531175330 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 64
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Describes the wide variety of ancient human corpses that are found, how they were preserved, and what archeologists can learn from them.
Author: Christopher Sloan Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1426306962 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Investigate mysteries from the grave in this creepy-fun compendium of the world's most fascinating mummies. Learn what the experts have discovered about each mummy's life and death.
Author: Françoise Dunand Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801444722 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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"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.
Author: James Preller Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613179010 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Detective Jigsaw Jones and his friend, Mila, have a new case to solve after they happen upon a genuine mummy at the class Halloween party
Author: Mary Pope Osborne Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0593174771 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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The #1 bestselling chapter book series is now available as graphic novels! Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked back to Ancient Egypt with Jack and Annie! In the pyramid, a real-life mummy is waiting. . . .The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to ancient Egypt. Inside a pyramid, Jack and Annie find a long-dead queen who needs their help solving a centuries-old riddle. If only they can find their way through the pyramid’s maze! For the first time in graphic novel--live the adventure again with new full-color vibrant art that brings the magic to life!
Author: Charlotte Wilcox
Author: Charlotte Wilcox
Author: Peter Lacovara
Author: Lisa Owings
Author: Kelly Milner Halls
Author: Martin Widmark
Author: N. B. Grace
Author: Christopher Sloan
Author: Françoise Dunand
Author: James Preller
Author: Mary Pope Osborne