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Françoise Dunand - Mummies and Death in Egypt - 9780801444722 - V9780801444722
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Mummies and Death in Egypt

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Description for Mummies and Death in Egypt Hardback. Translator(s): Lorton, David. Num Pages: 256 pages, 258. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJF; HBLA; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 262 x 27. Weight in Grams: 756.

"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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444722
SKU
V9780801444722
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-39

About Françoise Dunand
Françoise Dunand is Professor of the History of Religion, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, and the coauthor of Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE, also from Cornell. Roger Lichtenberg is a physician in private practice. Jean Yoyotte is Professor Emeritus, Collége de France. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Reviews for Mummies and Death in Egypt
"The authors have divided this book into two parts. In the first section, Dunand looks at why and how mummies were made . . . . The second part of the book, written by Lichtenberg, looks in some detail at modern, scientific research on mummies. He draws together research and studies undertaken around the world, but also much of his ... Read more

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