Mummies Unwrapped - 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 Unwrapped write by Kimberly Weinberger. This book was released on 2001. Mummies Unwrapped available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In four brief chapters, readers learn important facts about the Egyptians' belief on life and death, stories and superstitions surrounding their gods and goddesses, and the origin of mummies. Original.
The Mummy Unwrapped
The Mummy Unwrapped - 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 Unwrapped write by Thomas M. Feramisco. This book was released on 2015-08-01. The Mummy Unwrapped available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mummy came to life in the 1940s out of Universal Pictures' need to produce quick turnaround, low budget "B" movies. Universal produced The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, and The Mummy's Curse (originally The Mummy's Return) and thus created a popular franchise that is still supported today by a following of loyal fans. (Universal was prompted to produce a remake of its Mummy films in 1999.) This book is devoted entirely to Universal's Mummy movies of the 1940s. It reveals lost action and dialogue by analyzing scenes that were edited out days before The Mummy's Hand was released to theaters, treats readers to other dialogue that was filmed and then cut down to almost nothing before being included in the films, and compares and contrasts the original story of The Mummy's Return to the final shooting script of what was later renamed The Mummy's Curse. Each of the films has its own chapter, and chapters are also devoted to the actors who played the heroes, heroines, high priests, victims, and mummies in the films, and to the filmmakers who brought the mummies to life.
Mummies Unwrapped!
Mummies Unwrapped! - 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 Unwrapped! write by N. B. Grace. This book was released on 2008. Mummies Unwrapped! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the wide variety of ancient human corpses that are found, how they were preserved, and what archeologists can learn from them.
The Virtual Mummy
The Virtual 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 Virtual Mummy write by Sarah Underhill Wisseman. This book was released on 2003. The Virtual Mummy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Virtual Mummy is a thoroughly readable introduction to the nondestructive techniques used by contemporary researchers to analyze the artifacts and culture of ancient Egypt. It tells the captivating story of the "virtual unwrapping" of an Egyptian mummy and the interdisciplinary project that allowed researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate the person inside by way of an autopsy performed by computer. The mummy, acquired by the university's Spurlock Museum in 1989, was from the Fayum region of Egypt and is dated to about 100 a.d. Although other mummy projects have used destructive analytical techniques, the Spurlock mummy was never even unwrapped. Minute samples of loose material were taken for dating and for textile and wood analysis without affecting the integrity or display quality of the artifact. Faculty and staff members from area hospitals and University of Illinois departments including classics, anthropology, chemistry, textile sciences, and entomology were recruited by the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials for the project. The interdisciplinary team implemented a research plan that relied on medical imaging techniques including X rays and CT scans. They also utilized for the first time in the history of mummy research a Cray II supercomputer -- at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications -- to render three-dimensional images of the mummy's skull and body. Replete with illustrations, Sarah U. Wisseman's engaging chronicle of teamwork and research gives readers the chance to experience how ancient history melded with contemporary technology. The Virtual Mummy also includes a review of the development of mummification and a general history of mummy research.
The Mummy's Curse
The Mummy's Curse - 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's Curse write by Roger Luckhurst. This book was released on 2012-10-25. The Mummy's Curse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.
