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040 _aCITU LRAC
_beng
041 _aeng
082 _a393.3
100 1 _aAndrews, Carol
_eauthor
245 _aEgyptian mummies /
_cCarol Andrews
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c1998.
300 _a96 pages :
_b illustrations;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 91) and indexes.
505 _aWhy mummies? -- How mummies were made -- Jewellery [i.e. jewelry] and amulets -- Coffins and sarcophagi -- Funerals, tombs, and burial equipment -- Animal and historical mummies -- Mummies and Europe.
520 _aAndrews answers your questions about mummies, the religious beliefs which lay behind this practice, how animals came to be embalmed, and the role assumed by Egyptian mummies in European culture and mythology.
650 0 _a Archaeology.
650 0 _a Mummies
_zEgypt.
650 0 _a Human remains (Archaeology)
_zEgypt.
650 0 _a Customs.
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