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"Speak my name so that I may live again" was often written on the walls of Egyptian tombs, imploring visitors to speak the names of the dead and make offerings on their behalf. These acts of continued remembrance sustained the dead in the afterlife. Speak My Name: Investigating Egyptian Mummies explores the coffins and mummies of Meruah, Padiashaikhet, Horus and Mer-Neith-it-es, who lived in Egypt between 1200 BCE and 100 CE and whose mummies and/or coffins are now in the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. A multidisciplinary team provides new insights into mummification and coffin manufacture in ancient Egypt through a combination of scientific and Egyptological methods, including CT imaging, skeletal analysis, radiocarbon dating, and digital modelling and illustration. Their discoveries illuminate the personhood of the individuals these mummies and coffins represent. Advances in technology allow us to respectfully learn about their daily lives, including nutrition, health and disease. Beautifully illustrated, Speak My Name demonstrates how science and archaeology work together to help us better understand the past. By studying the life and death of Meruah, Padiashaikhet, Horus and Mer-Neith-it-es, we speak their names again.
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Des célèbres momies égyptiennes, aux têtes réduites d'Amazonie, de la pratique de l'auto-momification des moines japonais, aux corps retrouvés conservés dans la glace au Groenland, Juliette Cazes vous embarque autour du monde, à la découverte de momies dont le repos éternel ne manque pas de rebondissements ! Chaque chapitre du livre est illustré d'une gravure originale de l'artiste Mathilde Payen
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Ancient history --- begrafenissen --- oudheid --- mummies --- Egypt
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Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. This book takes you on a journey from Paris to London, Leicester and Manchester, from the apothecaries of the Middle Ages to the dissecting tables of the eighteenth century, and finally behind the screen of today's computers, to revisit the stories of these bodies that have fascinated Europeans for so long.Mummified investigates matters of life and death, of collecting and viewing, and of interactions - sometimes violent and sometimes emotional - that question the essence of what makes us human. -- site de l'éditeur.
Mummies --- Museum exhibits --- Exhibitions --- History. --- Exhibitions&delete& --- History --- Display techniques --- Displays, Museum --- Museum displays --- Museums --- Museum techniques --- Human mummies --- Dead --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Embalming --- Exhibitions.
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Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia's involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.
Drug control. --- Drug traffic. --- Drug dealers. --- America. --- Christianity. --- Moscow. --- Muscovy. --- Paracelsus. --- Peter Great. --- Russia. --- books. --- botany. --- bureaucracy. --- chemicals. --- corpses. --- doctoring traditions. --- drugs. --- early modern. --- empire. --- global. --- globalization. --- horn. --- intertextuality. --- legislation. --- manuscript. --- materia medica. --- material culture. --- mummies. --- pharmacy. --- prescriptions. --- print. --- regulation. --- religion. --- sassafras. --- science. --- theriac. --- trade. --- translation. --- tsars. --- unicorns.
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