导语

  

    MUMMIES ARE THE PRESERVED  BODIES of people or animals. The word was first used to describe the bandaged bodies of ancient Egyptians. But any dead body that still has skin on it is a mummy.
    JAMES PUTNAM in association with countries and cultures from the embalmed dead of Egypt to bodie.

内容提要

  

    THE BRITISH MUSEUMBe an eyewitness to the amazing secrets of ancient mummies from different countries and cultures - from the embalmed dead of Egypt to bodies preserved in bogs, sand, and ice.

What are mummies?
Natural mummies
A land lost in time
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Making a mummy
Wrapping up
Mummy masks
Amulets and magic charms
Mummy cases
Into the sarcophagus
Taking it with you
Workers for the afterlife
The mummy and the god Osiris
The royal mummies
The treasures of Tutankhamun
Curse of the mummy
Greek and Roman mummies
Animal mummies
Unwrapping the mummy's secrets
Mummies of the Andes
The Iceman
Bog mummies
The mummies of Sicily
Other mummies
Did you know?
Timeline
Find out more
Glossary
Index
Egyptian pot containing