In search of the immortals : mummies, death and the afterlife /
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Language: English
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2001.
Edition: 1st U. S. edition.
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Call Number: GN293 .R45 2001
Table of Contents:
- •Pt. 1. The Old World •1. Central Asia: The Riddle in the Sands •2. Siberia: Ice Mummies of the Nomads •3. Northwest Europe: Bodies in the Bogs •4. Egypt: Land of Immortality •5. Canary Islands: Last Mummy-Makers of the Old World •Pt. 2. The New World •6. Between the Old World and the New •7. Coastal Chile and Peru: The First Mummy-Makers •8. Coastal Peru: Valleys of the Dead •9. Peruvian Andes: In the Sacred Mountains. Afterword: The Importance of Mummies •App. The Ice Man of the Alps.