Secrets of the dead : mummies and other human remains from around the world / written by Matt Ralphs ; illustrated by Gordy Wright.
Material type:
TextSeries: British MuseumPublisher: Lincoln, MA : Nosy Crow, 2025Copyright date: ©2022Description: 61 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9798887770819
- Mummies and other human remains from around the world
- Dead -- Juvenile literature
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- Juvenile literature
- Dead
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Morts -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- Histoire -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Restes humains (Archéologie) -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Dead
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- 930.1 23/eng/20250116
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First published 2022 by Nosy Crow Ltd. in London
"This book is published by Nosy Crow in collaboration with the British Museum."--Page 4 of cover.
Includes index.
Africa -- Americas -- Europe and the Middle East -- Asia.33615001917
From ancient Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies to the plaster citizens of Pompeii, painted people of the Steppe, and Japanese self-mummifying monks, this book reveals what scientists and experts have uncovered about our ancestors' lives from the bodies they left behind. Find out what people of the past ate, wore, believed in, and much more in this unique and intricately illustrated book.
Grades 4-7.