The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead

Heather Pringle

384 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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The Mummy Congress takes us on a journey over five continents and back nearly 7,000 years. Pringle tells how mummies have been venerated as saints, fought over by politicians, collected as artistic treasures and investigated for clues to ancient c...

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