Record details

• ISBN: 0756607078
• ISBN: 9780756607074
• Physical Description: 72 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
• Edition: revised edition
• Publisher: London ; DK Pub., [2004]
• Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Rev. ed. of: Mummy.

Formatted Contents Note:

What are mummies? 6 -- Natural mummies 8 -- A land lost in time 10 -- Egyptian Book of the Dead 12 -- Making a mummy 14 -- Wrapping up 16 -- Mummy masks 18 -- Amulets and magic charms 20 -- Mummy cases 23 -- Into the sarcophagus 28 -- Taking it with you 30 -- Workers for the afterlife 32 -- Mummy and the god Osiris 34 -- Royal mummies 36 -- Treasures of Tutankhamun 38 -- Curse of the mummy 40 -- Greek and Roman mummies 42 -- Animal mummies 44 -- Unwrapping the mummy's secrets 48 -- Mummies of the Andes 52 -- Iceman 56 -- Bog mummies 58 -- Mummies of Sicily 60 -- Other mummies 62.

Target Audience Note:

IG960L Lexile

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 1 13986.

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Subject:

Embalming > Egypt > History.
Mummies > Egypt.