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(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful one stop volume on Egyptian mummies. Detailed and focused on the process of how the Egyptians developed mummification. The book begins with the memos between Dr. Brier and school administration on performing an actual human mummification on campus and then ends with the teaser that any further information on the modern mummification will be published elsewhere.
For anyone who has a fascination about mortuary practices, Ancient Egyptian history, and paleo-archaeology or even the developoment of Egyptian archaeological practices this book is for you. Broken down by dynasties Brier carefully provides information about the mummification process through those time periods while giving small doses of Egyptian history. Brier also has a nice section on the Mummy in movies and popular media which is a nice send off to the previous historical chapters.
It is a fascinating introduction and I could not put my copy down. The writing style is very readable and easy going. The only reason that I give it 4 stars is due to him not providing information on the modern mummifcation that he performed a few years ago. For further information on that mummification you have to find his article in Archaeology (Jan/Feb. 2001) or articles in the Journal of Physical Anthropology. After reading those articles I thought a chapter on that mummification would not have been out of place nor of too much strain on resources.
For those wanting to start an Egyptology section to their library this would be a fine edition and so would the Oxford history of Ancient Egypt.
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