Websites

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Mummy Road Show
www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/mummy/
Website to accompany the National Geographic's Mummy Road Show, with interactive features and details of the various mysteries covered in the programmes.

Mummy Tombs
www.mummytombs.com/main.welcome.htm
James M Deem's 'website for mummy masters of all ages'. A fun website with basic details about human mummies throughout the world, plus an e-mail question and answer service.

Mummies of Ancient Egypt
www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/
Website with basic introductory information about mummies, how they are made and who they were. Includes glossary and dateline of Egyptian pharaohs.

Guardians Egypt
www.guardians.net/egypt/mummies.htm
Everything you've always wanted to know about Ancient Egyptian mummies, but were afraid to ask! Learn about the Egyptians' worldview, the process of mummification and meet the mummies.

Mummification
www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/index.html
Part of the British Museum's interactive learning website on Ancient Egypt. Includes details of mummification, an opportunity to explore a coffin and its mummy, and an interactive game.

Ice Mummies
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/
Companion website for NOVA TV documentary on ice mummies. Includes details of the Peruvian ice mummies, Otzi the Iceman and various other materials.

Books

The Private Lives of the Pharaohs by Joyce Tyldesley
Excellent Channel4 book. Ancient Egypt, land of the pharaohs, bore witness to the rise and fall of the world's greatest civilization. Egyptologists read the hieroglyphics, while archaeologists recover the material remains of the past and thanks to advances in scientific analytical techniques, it is possible to analyse the mummified bodies of the Egyptians themselves.

Tombs, Graves and Mummies edited by Paul Bahn
Continent-by-continent, this book moves from such topics as Lucy, the 3 million-year-old australopithecine from Ethiopia, to the fate of the Romanovs at the hands of the Bolsheviks, from a Cretan human sacrifice interrupted by an earthquake, to the children sacrificed in the Andes.

The Mummy Congress: Science, obsession, and the everlasting dead by Heather Pringle
Discover the preserved dead from around the world: from northern European bog bodies to the odd Caucasian-looking mummies from Asia.

Egyptian Mummies by Carol Andrews
A beautifully illustrated account of how mummies were made, the religious beliefs which lay behind this practice, the ornate coffins and elaborate tombs which housed the bodies and the grave goods which accompanied them.

Earthly Remains: The history and science of preserved human bodies by Michael Parker Pearson and Andrew T Chamberlain
This book covers the myths and realities of preservation and decay; bog bodies; deliberately mummified bodies; frozen bodies; and the ways in which science can be used to reveal the secrets of the long dead. Fascinating.

The Complete Book of Mummies by Claire Llewellyn
Explaining how and why bodies are mummified, this excellent book looks at ice age mummies, American Indian mummies, Egyptian mummies and animal mummies. It also looks at how to find mummies, the science of testing mummies, public reaction to mummies through the ages and modern-day mummies such as Lenin.

For kids

DK Eyewitness Guides: Mummy
A folder crammed with pictures, posters, transcripts and first-hand accounts - everything a young scholar needs to know about mummies. A real treasure chest of materials.

Egyptian Mummies by Delia Pemberton
A lively book that will introduce children to Egyptian mummies and the ancient world they came from.

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