Why did the Egyptians try to preserve their dead for eternity? How did they succeed? Carol Andrews answers these questions in a fully illustrated survey of the techniques of mummification, the religious beliefs that lay behind the practice, the ornate coffins and elaborate tombs that housed the bodies, and the grave goods that accompanied them. She explains how animals also came to be embalmed and relates the curious role assumed by Egyptian mummies in European culture and mythology. This book has long proved fascinating reading; it is now available in an updated format.
- ISBN10 0674013913
- ISBN13 9780674013919
- Publish Date 15 July 2004 (first published April 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 January 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English