Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt Review

Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt
Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)
An excellent book by a professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo. It deals with all the reasons why animals were mummified in ancient Egypt, why these mummies acccmpanied their masters into their tombs, and also the hoaxes that were sometimes perpetrated on unsuspecting pilgrims who thought that they were actually purchasing mummies of animals to offer to the gods. Salima Ikram is the leading authority on the subject of animal mummies. She has written widely on the subject, lectured on it at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, and several other well-known institutes, and appears frequently on TV (I have seen her on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, etc, etc.) She has established a room for animal mummies in the Egyptian museum in Cairo, the first of its kind in the world.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt



Buy NowGet 30% OFF

Click here for more information about Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt

0 comments:

Post a Comment