The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
Language: English
Published by Barnes & Noble Books, 2001
- Hardcover
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- Title
- The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
- Author
- Pringle Heather
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Books
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0760771510
- ISBN 13
- 9780760771518
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Review
Pringle details the tension between the preservationists, who want to protect the ancient dead and refuse to unwrap them, and the dissectionists, who see mummies as a repository of scientific data waiting to be studied. She also introduces the reader to the preserved dead from around the world--from the bog bodies of northern Europe to the mysterious Caucasian-looking mummies from China's Tarim Basin, from Egyptians in linen shrouds to incorruptible Christian saints, and from Lenin in his Moscow mausoleum to Incan children found on Andean mountaintops.
Peppered with fascinating snippets of information--for example, for centuries artists were sold on a pigment called "mummy," a transparent brown made from ground-up mummies--The Mummy Congress makes for lively, if somewhat ghoulish reading. Highly recommended. --Sunny Delaney
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