Mummies and Their Mysteries (Photo Book) - Softcover

"Plenty of well-chosen color photos add meat to the bones, both enhancing the lively text and inducing delicious shudders."

The reader is taken on a hunt for mummies and their mysteries around the world in this book showing that mummies aren't only found in pyramids in Egypt. The book describes the origin of the word mummy, describes different ways that mummies can be produced, how different societies mummify bodies as a way of caring for them after death and explores the idea of resurrecting mummification as a practice. Photographs reveal a 5000 year-old hunter frozen in an alpine glacier, able seaman John Hartnell who died in 1846 almost perfectly preserved in the perma frost of Northern Canada, and a man who was murdered 2000 years ago and lay in a peat bog in Denmark until discovered in 1950.