TY - BOOK ID - 69926954 TI - The cult of the immortal : mummies and the Ancient Egyptian way of death. AU - Leca, Ange-Pierre AU - Asmal, Louise PY - 1982 SN - 0586084061 PB - Granada DB - UniCat KW - Momies UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69926954 AB - In millions of mummified corpses of kings and commoners, animals, birds and beetles, Ancient Egypt has left a unique heritage for our civilization. Ange-Pierre Leca has made a study of the mummies throughout the world and has built up an extraordinarily detailed picture of the life of a people of the remote past. We see their belief in the continuity of life through death, which led to their obsession with death but also with the joy of living. We see their social organisation, patterns of health, and their intense feeling for the natural world. ER -