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Embalming --- Mummies --- History

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To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved as with the ancient Egyptians using a variety of complex techniques, others accidentally by dry baking heat, intense cold and ice, or by tanning in peat bogs. By examining these preserved humans, we can get profound insights into the lives, health, culture and deaths of individuals and populations long gone. The first edition of this book was acclaimed as a classic. This readable new edition builds on these foundations, investigating the fantastic new findings in South America, Europe and the Far East. It will be a 'must-have' volume for anyone working in paleopathology and a fascinating read for all those interested in anthropology, archaeology, and the history of medicine.

Mummies. --- Paleopathology. --- Medical archaeology --- Pathology --- Human mummies --- Dead --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Embalming --- Mummies --- Paleopathology

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Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of death in ancient Egypt, including beliefs of the afterlife, mummification, the protection of the body, tombs and their construction and decoration, funerary goods, and the funeral itself. It also addresses the relationship between the living and the dead, and the magico-religious interaction of these two in ancient Egyptian culture.Salima Ikram's own experience with experimental mummification and funerary archaeology lends the book many completely original and provocative insights. In addition, a full survey of current development in the field makes this a unique book that combines all aspects of death and burial in ancient Egypt into one volume.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Mummies --- Egypt.

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"This book recounts a fascinating tale of the mystery of the Albany mummies from their early acquisition in 1909, to their beloved status as Albany's Egyptian priest and priestess in the mid-twentieth century, to the present, when their mystery was solved through the intersection of historical scholarship and science and technology. Key to this story was the planning and installation of a major exhibition called GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany Mummies, organized by the Albany Institute of History & Art and on view from September 21, 2013 until June 6, 2014"--Foreword. "The story of the Albany mummies centers on two ancient Egyptian mummies and their coffins, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period. In 1909, the mummies and coffin bottoms were purchased from the Cairo Museum by Albany Institute board member Samuel Brown, a purveyor of coffees, teas, and spices in Albany"--Albany Institute website.

Mummies --- Mummy cases --- Mummies --- Mummy cases --- Egyptology --- Exhibitions --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Albany Institute of History and Art --- History. --- Egypt --- Egypt --- Kings and rulers --- History. --- Antiquities.

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S11/1200 --- S17/0211 --- S25/0500 --- S32/0500 --- #SML: Chinese memorial library --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China --- China: Art and archaeology--Archaeology: Prehistory --- Xinjiang--History (Uigurs come here) --- Central Asia--History (incl. Huns, Turkish people etc.) --- mummies [bodies] --- Mummies --- Human mummies --- Dead --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Embalming --- Tarim Basin (China) --- Xingjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) --- Tʻa-li-mu pʻen-ti (China) --- Talimu Pendi (China) --- Tarim Pendi (China) --- Antiquities. --- China --- Mummies. --- Mummies - China - Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.