Mummy

People have always wanted to live forever. This superb collection of photographs brings the story of how the ancient Egyptians and many other societies around the world preserved their dead, as well as the facts about ancient bodies accidentally preserved by ice and sand, vividly to life.Learn how different societies prepared for death, and see the bodies that escaped the ravages of time, from a man sacrificed and thrown into a bog in England in 300 B.C. to a woman freeze-dried in a cave in Greenland over 500 years ago. As well as mummies, their wrappings and decorated cases, X-rays and 3-D CAT scans get beneath the bandages and under the skin to reveal some surprising secrets about life – and death – long ago.Produced in association with the British Museum, Mummy is a unique and compelling introduction to mummified bodies and what they tell us about our past.