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.

 

This book is part of a book series called Dk Eyewitness .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Scott Steedman is the author of many history books, for both children and adults, on subjects ranging from Ancient Egypt to the American Indians. James Putnam is a curator, writer, and Egyptologist.