The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity (Hardcover)

However, 'The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity', is not only a highly resourceful reference book for Egyptologists studying the material aspects of funerary religion in ancient Egypt, but also makes a fantastic read (and I add accurate at this point - there is very little of the glamourisation so often encountered in popular books and television series which falsify the true essence of Egyptology) for the general reader. If one is simply interested in learning something about ancient Egyptian funerary art or the religious ideas behind mummification then this book is a really good place to start. The information provided is reliable and presented in an interesting and easy to understand manner.

It is not only incredibly well illustrated with photographs and drawings of mummies, jewellery, masks, coffins, sarcophagi and canopic equipment, but has large colour plates of the finest artefacts.

It also discusses the development of mummification, amulets and jewellery, masks, coffins, sarcophagi and canopic equipment and their varying visual forms and the religious beliefs behind their iconography.

I really can't find a way to express the value this book, which is so interesting to read and highlights many of the issues that makes Egyptology so interesting to the general reader, yet it also provides ample evidence for the scholar.

However, 'The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity', is not only a highly resourceful reference book for Egyptologists studying the material aspects of funerary religion in ancient Egypt, but also makes a fantastic read (and I add accurate at this point - there is very little of the glamourisation so often encountered in popular books and television series which falsify the true essence of Egyptology) for the general reader. If one is simply interested in learning something about ancient Egyptian funerary art or the religious ideas behind mummification then this book is a really good place to start. The information provided is reliable and presented in an interesting and easy to understand manner.

It is not only incredibly well illustrated with photographs and drawings of mummies, jewellery, masks, coffins, sarcophagi and canopic equipment, but has large colour plates of the finest artefacts.

It also discusses the development of mummification, amulets and jewellery, masks, coffins, sarcophagi and canopic equipment and their varying visual forms and the religious beliefs behind their iconography.

I really can't find a way to express the value this book, which is so interesting to read and highlights many of the issues that makes Egyptology so interesting to the general reader, yet it also provides ample evidence for the scholar.