British Museum: Secrets of the Dead: Mummies and Other Human Remains from Around the World

Author: Matt Ralphs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Travel back in time to discover secrets of mummies and other human remains from around the world in this fascinating book, publishing 100 years after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb. From ancient Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies to the plaster citizens of Pompeii, painted people of the Steppe and Japanese self-mummifying monks, this book reveals what scientists and experts have uncovered about our ancestors' lives from the bodies they...Read more