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Title	:	Mummies: A Strange Science Book
Author	:	Sylvia Funston
Rating	:	4.65 (145 Votes)
Asin	:	1894379047
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	40Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-3-8
Language	:	English

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. The book is profusely illustrated with photos, soft pastel-toned artwork, and a global-location map/time line. Researchers looking for more detailed data should supplement this title with Charlotte Wilcox's fine Mummies & Their Mysteries (1994) and Mummies, Bones, & Body Parts (2000, both Carolrhoda), James Deem's dramatic Bodies from the Bog (Houghton, 1998), Johan Reinhard's gripping Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden (National Geographic, 1998), and Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's excellent Secrets of the Ice Man (Benchmark, 1998).Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Everest. Numerous sidebars provide snippets on such diverse topics as the Pharoah Akhenaten and the ill-fated Franklin Expedition. An experiment in freeze-drying, directions for making a dried-apple headed mini-mummy, and a board game called "Mummy Trekking" round out the presentation. From School Library Journal Grade 5-7-A broad introduction to mummified human remains, from the expected carefully wrapped mummies of ancient Egypt

Under the city of Palermo, Italy, there lies a City of the Dead. Nature has been preserving bodies longer -- and often more successfully -- than humans have. Their remains reveal much about how they lived -- and died. Mummies have been found all over the world, and in some of the strangest places on earth. Egyptian mummies are the most famous, but preserved bodies have also been found in peat bogs in England, on the mountain tops of the Andes, in deserts in China, even on Mount Everest! Some mummies died naturally, others were sacrificed to their gods. To qualify as a mummy, a dead body must have at least its bones, skin and hair, and it has to look like a human being. What is a mummy? It's an old, dead body that's refused to rot. Did You Know:

• When the mummy of King Ramses II flew from Cairo to Paris he traveled with a passport? His occupation was listed as 'King (deceased).' This entitled him to a guard of honor and a ceremonial salute at the airport. You'd have found their dried-out bodies laid in coffins, dressed in their funeral clothes.
• The preserved body of famous mountaineer George Leigh Mallory was discovered on Mount Everest in May, 1999. Did his mummified body hold evidence that they had made it?

With just the right dose of gruesome details and mesmerizing facts, Sylvia Funston's gripping text introduces readers to some of the most famous -- and not so famous -- mummies. Re

Her most recent books include explorations into animal behavior in Animal Feelings (1998,) and Animal Smarts (1997).

. She explored the science of fear in Scary Science (1996), which has been shortlisted for the 1999 Red Cedar Book Award, and co-authored A Kid's Guide to the Brain (1994) with Jay Ingram, which won the Children's Book Award from the Canadian Science Writers' Association of Canada.

An accomplished writer and former editor of Owl magazine, Sylvia Funston has a keen sense of what young readers want to read about