Tales Mummies Tell
by Lauber, Patricia
- Used
- Condition
- Book VG-: ex library with stamp top edge text block, tape residue to boards, discard stamp FFEP, text unmarked, binding tight./DJ VG: clean, unclipped.
- ISBN 10
- 0690043899
- ISBN 13
- 9780690043891
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1985. hardcover. Book VG-: ex library with stamp top edge text block, tape residue to boards, discard stamp FFEP, text unmarked, binding tight./DJ VG: clean, unclipped.. 8vo 118pp. Grades 5-9. from front flap: "How can we be so sure of what ancient life was like? Largely because, in recent years, mummies have begun to "talk" to scientists who study them for clues to the distant past. X-rays reveal mummies that have never been unwrapped. The shape of the face appears, and resemblances may establish family relationships. In the bones of a mummy, medical scientists can read age at death, signs of disease, fractures that healed. Teeth yield information about diet and health. Sometimes a mummy offers a surprise: an Egyptian mummy is found to have two skulls' another, long thought to be the child of a high priestess, turns out to be a baboon. Sometimes a mummy tells a moving story: examination of a girl's mummy shows she lived her short life in considerable pain; a man's mummy, with broken bones sand slit throat, proves he met a violent death. Generously illustrated with photographs ranging from the gruesome to the starkly beautiful, Tales Mummies Tell is a remarkable account of mummies--intriguing talebearers from the past--and of the ways scientists unlock their secrets." #02440.
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- Seller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2375
- Title
- Tales Mummies Tell
- Author
- Lauber, Patricia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG-: ex library with stamp top edge text block, tape residue to boards, discard stamp FFEP, text unmarked, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG: clean, unclipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0690043899
- ISBN 13
- 9780690043891
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- mummy, Egypt, archaeology, history, nonfiction, children
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