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Author | : Aidan Cockburn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521589543 |
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A readable and fascinating account of the story of mummification from around the world.
Author | : Aidan Cockburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Mummies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aidan Cockburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arthur C. Aufderheide |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521818261 |
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Author | : Dong Hoon Shin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1171 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789811533532 |
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Owing to their unique state of preservation, mummies provide us with significant historical and scientific knowledge of humankind’s past. This handbook, written by prominent international experts in mummy studies, offers readers a comprehensive guide to new understandings of the field’s most recent trends and developments. It provides invaluable information on the health states and pathologies of historic populations and civilizations, as well as their socio-cultural and religious characteristics. Addressing the developments in mummy studies that have taken place over the past two decades – which have been neglected for as long a time – the authors excavate the ground-breaking research that has transformed scientific and cultural knowledge of our ancient predecessors. The handbook investigates the many new biotechnological tools that are routinely applied in mummy studies, ranging from morphological inspection and endoscopy to minimally invasive radiological techniques that are used to assess states of preservation. It also looks at the paleoparasitological and pathological approaches that have been employed to reconstruct the lifestyles and pathologic conditions of ancient populations, and considers the techniques that have been applied to enhance biomedical knowledge, such as craniofacial reconstruction, chemical analysis, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA analysis. This interdisciplinary handbook will appeal to academics in historical, anthropological, archaeological and biological sciences, and will serve as an indispensable companion to researchers and students interested in worldwide mummy studies.
Author | : Roy Lee Moodie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258104580 |
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Author | : Philip Norrie |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2016-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319289373 |
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This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival either avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. The book will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in the chain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient world and that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently the case.
Author | : Françoise Dunand |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801444722 |
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"Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has the benefit of all the methods and means at the disposal of forensic medicine. The 'mummy stories' we tell have changed their tone, but they have enjoyed much success, with fantastic scientific and technological results resolving the mysteries of the ancient land of the pharaohs."--from the Foreword Mummies are the things that fascinate us most about ancient Egypt. But what are mummies? How did the Egyptians create them? And why? What became of the people they once were? We are learning more all the time about the cultural processes surrounding mummification and the medical characteristics of ancient Egyptian mummies. In the first part of Mummies and Death in Egypt Françoise Dunand gives an overview of the history of mummification in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Roman period. She thoroughly describes the preparations of the dead (tombs and their furnishings, funerary offerings, ornamentation of the corpse, coffins, and canopic jars), and she includes a separate chapter on the mummification of animals. She links these various practices and behaviors to the religious beliefs of classical Egypt. In the second part of this book, Roger Lichtenberg, a physician and archaeologist, offers a fascinating narrative of his forensic research on mummies, much of it conducted with a portable X-ray machine on archaeological digs. His findings have revealed new information on the ages of the mummified, their causes of death, and the illnesses and injuries they suffered. Together, Dunand and Lichtenberg provide a state-of-the-art account of the science of mummification and its social and religious context.
Author | : Shelley Tanaka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780439249515 |
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Describes the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving the dead through the process of mummification and explains what scientists have learned from unwrapping and examining mummies.
Author | : Ann Rosalie David |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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