Mummies in Nineteenth Century America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mummies in Nineteenth Century America write by S.J. Wolfe. This book was released on 2009-10-14. Mummies in Nineteenth Century America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work examines Egyptian mummies as artifacts in pre-1900 America: how they got here, what happened to them, and how they were perceived by the public and by archaeologists. Collected newspaper accounts and other documents reveal the progression of American interest in mummies as curiosities, commodities, and cultural lessons. Numerous mummies which no longer exist are identified, and commentary on mummy coffins and a discussion of methods of public exhibition are included.
The Mummy!
The Mummy! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mummy! write by Mrs. Loudon (Jane). This book was released on 1828. The Mummy! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Handbook of Mummy Studies
The Handbook of Mummy Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Handbook of Mummy Studies write by Dong Hoon Shin. This book was released on 2021-10-26. The Handbook of Mummy Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Scientific Study of Mummies
The Scientific Study of Mummies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scientific Study of Mummies write by Arthur C. Aufderheide. This book was released on 2003. The Scientific Study of Mummies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents
Egyptian Mummies
Egyptian Mummies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egyptian Mummies write by Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden. This book was released on 2005. Egyptian Mummies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1999 a full-scale research project was launched by the Radiological Department of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden to scan a series of human and animal mummies from the museum's collection. Between 1999 and 2003, 29 human mummies, 8 dissected heads and various animal mummies were scanned and this volume presents the results of these investigations. The book begins by looking at the history of the collection and acquisitions, at early investigations carried out on the mummies from the early 19th century onwards, through to the radiological studies of the last fifty years. A general survey of mummification techniques, and archaeological and scientific research into them, is also given. The main part of the book comprises the results of the radiological scans which are discussed in terms of physical anthropology, anatomical embalming details, degree of preservation, anomalies and palaeopathology, wrappings and artefacts. This is followed by a catalogue of both the human and animal mummies (cats, lambs, birds, reptiles and fish) that were part of the project including details on acquisition, provenance, date, dimensions, description of the exterior, radiological description and comments. This is volume one of a new series of monographs dedicated to the archaeological finds in the Leiden Museum of Antiquities. Future volumes include studies of demotic contracts on papyrus, and discussion of the museum's excavations at Saqqara and Tell Sabi Abyad.
