Egypt
Christine El Mahdy
Thames & Hudson
New York
1989
Library of Congress Catalogue No. 89-50542
This 1989 book by author Christine El Mahdy was appointed with a number of nice images gracing its 192 pages though there was interesting details I also found a number of questionable anecdotes including the 5 days it took to empty DB320 of its mummified Kings and courtiers.
I continued on thankfully in Part II I found the author a little more into her element with historical analysis of the examining of mummies complete with excellent x-ray and CT scan images of mummies and their institutional related projects.
In part III "Myths and Magic" the author writes about the protection through amulets of both the dead and the living but in particular for the well being of the mummy. The reliefs left in their tombs complete with texts to ensure eternal sustenance with statues of the deceased and funerary models to work on behalf of.
I did enjoy the drawing of the Her-Uben papyrus in Cairo and the chapter dealing with the animal cults. The author goes on to deal with curses and more myths ending with the mummy in modern film but unfortunately as I reached the second last page there was a picture of the mummy of Ramses III but labeled as Thutmosis III.
This book is certainly suitable for young readers though it is by no means a perfect read I am sure the reader will encounter the Db320 story with a little more accuracy elsewhere and Ramses III is likely to be properly identified in the next book they read. Yes it is true there were many tiny errors but the book was still interesting though I am sure that a thing or two may have gone over my head, I may never know!
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Egypt
Mummies Myth and Magic in Ancient Egypt
Christine El Mahdy
Thames & Hudson
New York
1989
Library of Congress Catalogue No. 89-50542
This 1989 book by author Christine El Mahdy was appointed with a number of nice images gracing its 192 pages though there was interesting details I also found a number of questionable anecdotes including the 5 days it took to empty DB320 of its mummified Kings and courtiers.
I continued on thankfully in Part II I found the author a little more into her element with historical analysis of the examining of mummies complete with excellent x-ray and CT scan images of mummies and their institutional related projects.
In part III "Myths and Magic" the author writes about the protection through amulets of both the dead and the living but in particular for the well being of the mummy. The reliefs left in their tombs complete with texts to ensure eternal sustenance with statues of the deceased and funerary models to work on behalf of.
I did enjoy the drawing of the Her-Uben papyrus in Cairo and the chapter dealing with the animal cults. The author goes on to deal with curses and more myths ending with the mummy in modern film but unfortunately as I reached the second last page there was a picture of the mummy of Ramses III but labeled as Thutmosis III.
This book is certainly suitable for young readers though it is by no means a perfect read I am sure the reader will encounter the Db320 story with a little more accuracy elsewhere and Ramses III is likely to be properly identified in the next book they read. Yes it is true there were many tiny errors but the book was still interesting though I am sure that a thing or two may have gone over my head, I may never know!
- Mummies A Voyage Through Eternity
Francoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg Discoveries Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1994 ISBN 0-8109-2886-8 This small colourful book opens with full page head shots of nine mummies from the necropolis at Duch excavated by the Institut Francais d'Archeologie...
- The Mummy By Joyce Tyldesley
Joyce Tyldesley Carlton Books Limited 1999 ISBN: 1 85868 714 4 On my journey back to Vancouver I was browsing through this book which I had just picked up while visiting Victoria finding, to my chagrin, that a number of the photos bore incorrect captions...
- The World Of The Pharaoh's, A Complete Guide To Ancient Egypt
Christine Hobson Thames & Hudson New York ISBN: 0-500-27560-2 1987 The author starts out strong in its introduction with an interesting overview of Pharaonic history leading into the archaeologists who discovered the various epoch's of Egypt's...
- Valley Of The Golden Mummies
Zahi Hawass Harry N. Abrams. INC. New York 2000 ISBN 0-8109-3942-8 This large and picturesque book is by the undefiable head of Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. The author opens his book with a record of his accomplishments...
- The Royal Mummies, Immortality In Ancient Egypt
Francis Janot White Star Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-544-0389-5 "What a thrill it is when the portable lamps are lowered down a deep shaft and their light dispels the darkness of a tomb forgotten...