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Mummies from around the world

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Thousands of years ago, their bodies were buried, hidden in the depths of pyramids, tied in burial cloths or left on the tops of snow-capped mountains. But the power of time was not unlimited: mummies outlived their own death. Archaeologist and anthropologist Juliette Cazes sets off on a journey around the world to uncover the secrets of ancient and modern mummification techniques, tracing the path from Egyptian sarcophagi to tiny Amazonian tsantsa heads, from self-mortified Japanese monks to remains found in permafrost.

How did people of past eras try to defeat decay? Why do preserved bodies
end up in museums? What ethical questions do remains that have survived the centuries pose to us?
This book is not just a story about mummification. It is a story about memory, fears and superstitions, about the connection between the past and the present, about people who did not disappear into oblivion after death.
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