Mummies of the world / [book]
- English ed.
- Munich ; New York : [Boca Raton] : Mannheim : Prestel ; American Exhibitions, Inc. ; Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, c2010.
- 384 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
"This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Mummies of the World', which tours selected venues in the United States from July 2010 through July 2013"--T.p. verso. Rev. translation of: Mumien : der Traum vom ewigen Leben, catalog of the exhibition Mummies : Dreams of Eternal Life held at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany in 2007, which was based on the results of the German Mummy Project. C.f. t.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-383),
Mummies : in nature and around the world. From flourishing life to dust : the natural cycle of growth and decay / Natural mummification : rare, but varied / People from the ice / Bog bodies : preserved bodies from peat / Mummies : a tour of the cultures. Mummies, mummification techniques and the cult of the dead in ancient Egypt : a chronological overview / Animal mummies and the worship of animals in ancient Egypt / Mummies in the Andean regions : the presence of the dead / Mummies from Oceania : a brief overview / Mummies in Australia : a special form of aboriginal burial rites / Mummies in China / The Altai lady and her companions : mummies of the Scythian Pazyryk culture / Living Buddhas : mummies in Japan / Mummies of the indigenous inhabitants on the Canary Islands / Mummies in monasteries and churches : monks, popes and princes / Naturally mummified corpses from the Dominican Church in V�ac, Hungary / A death -- beyond life -- Lenin, Mao, Evita / Mummification today : a very modern affair / Mumia and mummies in medicine and art. Mumia : from Ozokerite to cure-all / Mumia vera Aegyptiaca : a western apothecary's remedy / "Mumia" and asphalt in the art of painting / Mummies talk : modern mummy research methodologies. Mummy insights : x-ray analysis and computed tomography / Determination of mummy origins using molecular genetic analyses / Isotopic analysis of keratin : information about living environment and nutrition / Chemical toxicological analysis of hair samples : evidence of narcotics in mummies, too? / Infested, cursed, contaminated : microbial and chemical contamination in mummies / Conservation of mummies : having bones to pick with the dead / Rapid prototyping in medical technology and its application in mummy research / Facial reconstruction of mummies : the example Baron von Holz / Mummies and the media. "Dead or alive? Human or inhuman?" : mummies in film / Mummies in print : exploring mummy books for children and young adults / Mummies from around the world. Frankfurt's dinosaur mummy / Animal mummies found in lava caves in the Jordanian Desert / Natural animal mummies on exhibit at the State Museum of Natural History in Braunschweig, Germany / A mummified fire salamander found in a cave in the northern Franconian Alb of Germany / Animal mummies from the Eve-Maria Zimmermann Collection, Tenerife, Canary Islands / The salt mummy of a yellow-brown boxfish from Hurghada, Egypt / Dima : the baby mammoth / Two unusual glacier animal mummies / The bog dog from Burlage / Bodies buried in bogs : the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands / Egyptian animal mummies : the University of Bonn Collection / Interment, grave goods and eternal life in ancient Egypt : explained by objects from the University of Heidelberg / Two child mummies and some grave goods of the Byzantine Period from the Egyptian Collection at Heidelberg University, Germany / Egyptian mummies : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Egyptian mummies : the Merck Archives in Darmstadt / Egyptian mummy skulls : the Marburg Zoological Collection / The Egyptian mummies from Basel / The mummy and coffins of Nes-pa-kai-schuti / The "mummy" from Jena / An Asian mummy from the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Mummies from Oceania : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / South American mummies from the Ethnological Collection of Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany / "Gray and brown" pre-Columbian mummies : the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold / Peruvian mummies from Del�emont, Switzerland / Mummies from South America : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collections / Mummies found in the Dominican Church in V�ac, Hungary / Mummies from Palermo / The mummies from Sommersdorf Castle / Historical mummies of human fetuses at the Kassel Museum of Natural History / Burkhard Madea, Johanna Preuss and Frank Musshoff -- Wilfried Rosendahl -- Angelika Fleckinger -- Heather Gill-Frerking -- Tanja Pommerening -- Heimo Hohneck -- Virginia and Michael Tellenbach -- Eva-Maria G�unther -- Corinna Erckenbrecht and Heinz H. Klaatsch -- Jeanette Werning -- Barbara Kerneck -- Melanie Janssen-Kim -- Ursula Thiemer-Sachse -- Ina Wunn -- Ildik�o Szikossy ... [et al.] -- Luisa Reiblich -- Angela Graefen and Kurt W. Alt -- Tanja Pommerening -- Sabine Bernschneider-Reif -- Klaus J�urgen-Fischer -- Kurt W. Alt and Frank J. R�uhli -- Christina R�utze, Peter Forster and Joachim Burger -- Herv�e Bocherens -- Frank Musshoff and Burkhard Madea -- Jens Klocke and Karin Petersen -- Jens Klocke -- Arthur T. Bens -- Ursula Wittwer-Backofen -- Diana Wenzel -- Heather Gill-Frerking -- Bernd Herkner -- Stephan Kempe and Ahmad Al-Malabeh -- Ulrich Joger -- Brigitte Hilpert -- Matthias Feuersenger -- Matthias Feuersenger -- Doris D�oppes -- Wilfried Rosendahl and Doris D�oppes -- Markus Bertling, Heather Gill-Frerking and Wilfried Rosendahl -- Vincent T. Van Vilsteren -- Gabriele Pieke and Silke Grallert -- Dina Faltings -- Beatrix Gessler-L�ohr -- Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] -- Sabine Bernschneider-Reif ... [et al.] -- Jan Harbort -- Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] -- Dagmar Budde -- Matthias Rupp, Sabine Birkenbeil and Sandra Bock -- Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] -- Michael Tellenbach ... [et al.] -- Mechtild Freudenberg -- Roger Meyer ... [et al.] -- Anna-Maria Begerock ... [et al.] -- Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] -- Ildik�o Szikossy, Lilla Alida Krist�of and Ildik�o Pap -- Dario Piombino-Mascali ... [et al.] -- Manfred Baron Von Crailsheim -- Jana Mesenholl, Kai F�uldner and Wilfried Rosendahl.
The book reveals not only many of the techniques that ancient cultures used to preserve the bodies of the dead, but also the many natural processes leading to the preservation of bodies in desert sands, ice or acidic bogs, or even in attics. Nearly thirty scientific essays, with outstanding photographs and illustrations, bring together the latest research in mummy studies, with contributions from archaeology, anthropology, palaeopathology, biology and many other disciplines. With dignity and reverence, this volume shares the hidden information contained within the mummies.