MUMMIES ARE THE PRESERVED BODIES of people or animals. The word was first used to describe the bandaged bodies of ancient Egyptians. But any dead body that still has skin on it is a mummy.

JAMES PUTNAM in association with countries and cultures from the embalmed dead of Egypt to bodie.

THE BRITISH MUSEUMBe an eyewitness to the amazing secrets of ancient mummies from different countries and cultures - from the embalmed dead of Egypt to bodies preserved in bogs, sand, and ice.

What are mummies?

Natural mummies

A land lost in time

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Making a mummy

Wrapping up

Mummy masks

Amulets and magic charms

Mummy cases

Into the sarcophagus

Taking it with you

Workers for the afterlife

The mummy and the god Osiris

The royal mummies

The treasures of Tutankhamun

Curse of the mummy

Greek and Roman mummies

Animal mummies

Unwrapping the mummy's secrets

Mummies of the Andes

The Iceman

Bog mummies

The mummies of Sicily

Other mummies

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Timeline

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Glossary

Index

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