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The Mummy Congress

By Anna Fields, Heather Pringle

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Now available in paperback -- The Mummy Congress is "clear, direct and intense . . . all the stories sparkle. Pringle is a crack-shot storyteller." --New York Times Book Review

Perhaps the most eccentric of all scientific meetings, the World Congress on Mummy Studies brContinue

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The mummy returns

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead Heather Pringle 368pp, Fourth Estate, £15.99 Iceman Brenda Fowler 315pp, Macmillan, £20 The mummy has returned to the big screen this summer, but it feels like it's never been away. Our ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

The Best Reviews: Heather Pringle, The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting

"Intriguing and fascinating study of ancient people." Heather Pringle, the author of this intriguing book, is a science journalist; she writes articles on archaeology and ancient cultures for a number of popular science magazines. She started researc ... (read full critics)

thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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This is a most intriguing book about the conservation of the dead - and if you’re now thinking “Egyptian Mummies” then stop right there, for mummification has been going on all over the world, right throughout history and it cannot be excluded that someone somewhere is being mummified even as you r ... (continue)

This is a most intriguing book about the conservation of the dead - and if you’re now thinking “Egyptian Mummies” then stop right there, for mummification has been going on all over the world, right throughout history and it cannot be excluded that someone somewhere is being mummified even as you read these words.
Heather Pringle opens the doors to a world most of us would choose to avoid for as long as possible: the world of the dead. From putrefaction, to embalming with all the State pomp and parade, to accidental mummification. From the emptying out of Tutankhamen to keeping Lenin rosy and fresh in a glass box for decades: it’s all here – and never macabre.
Written in the best style of a village gossip who lets you in on the tiny little secrets that you never thought you’d want to know but that very quickly become addictive, the book is a real page turner. It’s even illustrated, though I quietly snipped the photos out of my copy when the image of a little blue-eyed girl in fairly modern dress started to haunt me unceasingly: she’s a mummy too.

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