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...