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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead,Heather Pringle
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Item specifics
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- Title
- The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
- ISBN
- 9781841151120
- Subject Area
- Social Psychology
- Publication Name
- The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Subject
- Science
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 198 mm
- Item Weight
- 298 g
- Item Width
- 129 mm
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Throughout history, from the Ancient Egyptians to medieval saints and the remains of figures like Eva Peron and Lenin, mummies have held a powerful place in our collective imagination. THE MUMMY CONGRESS is a riveting survey of the history, science and popular culture of mummies and of man's ancient quest for immortality. When acclaimed science journalist Heather Pringle was dispatched to a remote part of northern Chile to cover a little-known scientific conference, she found herself in the midst of the most passionate gathering of her working life - dozens of mummy experts crammed into a rambling seaside hotel, battling over the implications of their latest discoveries. Infected with their mania, Pringle spent the next year circling the globe, stopping in to visit the leading scientists so she could see first-hand the breathtaking delicacy and unexpected importance of their work. In The Mummy Congress, she recounts the intriguing findings from her travels, bringing to life the hitherto unknown worlds of the long-dead, and revealing what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Pringle's journeys lead her to the lifelike remains of medieval saints entombed in Italy's grand cathedrals, eerily preserved bog bodies in the Netherlands bearing signs of violent and untimely slaughter, and frozen Inca princesses glimpsed for the first time atop icy mountains. She learns of the extraordinary skills of ancient Egyptian embalmers capable of preserving bodies, in the words of one mummy expert, until the end of time ; of the horrifying sacrifices made by ancient South Americans to pacify their gods; and of the weird mummified parasites preserved in the guts of millennia-old bodies and that still wreak havoc across the world today.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9781841151120
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
384 Pages
Publication Name
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Psychology
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
298 g
Item Width
129 mm
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United Kingdom
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