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English edition
352 pp.
Hardbound
14.50 x 20.00 cm
$49.95
LE 250.00
ISBN
978 977 424 488 9
For sale only in the Middle East
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The Mummy in Ancient Egypt
Equipping the Dead for Eternity
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Salima Ikram
Aidan Dodson
The most detailed and complete account yet published of the funereal practices of the Ancient Egyptians and their development through the centuries.
The first modern account to survey the entire panoply of Egyptian burial equipment over 3,000 years—for the ancient Egyptians, the essentials of securing eternal life.
The Mummy in Ancient Egypt provides the most detailed survey yet of changing burial practices during the pharaonic era. The authors describe the evolution of methods for treating the body, wrapping it, adorning it, and sheltering it. Their account, which deals comprehensively with the development of mummy masks, coffins, sarcophagi, and canopic equipment, incorporates the very latest research, some carried out by the authors themselves.
An exceptional feature of the book is its wide-ranging reference section, with numerous timelines and tables, descriptions of every known royal mummy and a 700-entry bibliography, listing every significant work on the subject. Backed up by hundreds of photographs and specially drawn diagrams, this is the most authoritative publication ever produced on the Egyptian way of death.
Salima Ikram is Assistant Professor, Department of Egyptology, at the American University in Cairo.
Aidan Dodson is Visiting Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Bristol.
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