Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums

ISBN-13: 9781526161895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Angela Stienne

Opis

Two bodies buried in a museum garden, a coffin that rotates, a man collecting preserved heads: what if the real stories behind Egyptian mummies are not the ones you know? Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye. This book takes you on a journey from Paris to London, Leicester and Manchester, from the apothecaries of the Middle Ages to the dissecting tables of the eighteenth century, and finally behind the screen of today's computers, to revisit the stories of these bodies that have fascinated Europeans for so long. Mummified investigates matters of life and death, of collecting and viewing, and of interactions - sometimes violent and sometimes emotional - that question the essence of what makes us human. -- .

Spis treści

Introduction by John J. JohnstonPrologue1 The mummy as medicine, the mummy in medicine2 The displayed mummy, the displaced body3 Mummies buried in a garden, and other incidents4 The mummys foot5 Mummies unrolled6 The white mummy7 The white mummy returns8 The mummy of the futureEpilogueSuggested further readingBibliographyIndex