Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt by Lila Perl

Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt Reviews

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  Anita Eddy

  I have always had a deep interest for Egyptians and their believes . This book covered a lot of basics over the mummification process and the different gods that was supposedly worshipped.
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  Mohitha

  Egypt was always a facination to me. it always had a mysterious history. this book tells everything about ancient Egypt like thier gods, rituals, mummies , Pharoahs. has many interesting photos to look at too.
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  Mloy

  Sometimes I fancy myself an amateur Egyptologist (Who am I kidding? I'm a full-pledge delusional) and I do love books on the subject; so when I saw this on the shelf, I had to quickly snatch it up and this little impulse buy did not disappoint. The book was chock full of information about the mummification process, tons of imagery- from drawings, a tombs floor plans and real-life photographs. The book covers practically everything related to Egyptian mummies including the kind of accidental discovery of how the dessert conditions preserved the human body, the different deities connected to the afterlife, and highlights the cultural and religious significance of the mummy-making practice. It even has a snippet about how some Europeans' insane interest in mummies (and some twisted notion of being an everything-that-ails-you-cure) caused some profiteering individuals to start synthetically "manufacturing" mummies to keep up with the demand-- pretty ghastly and a shade on the morbid side, no? Seriously though, the history of this consistently fascinating ancient civilization is always educational and never, ever a boring read.
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  Kyle.b

  This book is great! It's about ancient Egypt and there mummies. They tell you how they mummify them, why they built mummies, and much more. It also talks about how and where they buried regular people. So far, this is one of the best non-fiction books I ever read! So I highly recommend reading this book, especially if you what to learn about Egyptian Mummies.
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  Gabrielle Link

  I like that I know some of the things they were talking about, but some I didn't know about!
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  Russell Hall

  My first nonfiction book on Ancient Egypt I read as a child, now reread with my son. He enjoyed it very much and it has held up pretty well over the years.
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  Manon Buderus

  Full of lots of interesting facts organized well with description.