The mummy

About this book

Museum officials tell us that mummies get more attention from museum-goers than any other ancient objects. Although many Egyptian customs and practices were to be found in other parts of Africa, mummification is unique to Egypt, and the scale on which it was practiced is found nowhere else in the world. Its uniqueness is only the beginning of its fascinating story. It was practiced in Egpyt for the four thousand years of the Dynastic Period. For four thousand years the preservation of the embalmed body, or mummy, was the chief end and aim of every Egyptian! The greater part of the wealth of Egypt during this time was devoted to mummification and what went along with it. - Jacket flap.

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About the author

E. A. Wallis Budge

1857 – 1934

Sir **Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge** (born 1857; died 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. VIAF Work IDs ------------- - ID [177948469][1]: Amulets and superstitions - ID [186401975][2]: Literature of the ancient Egyptians - ID [182313014][3]: Rosetta stone in the British Museum - ID [180363052][4]: Nile - ID [186386120][5]: Legends of the gods - ID [177476569][6]: Hieroglyphic vocabulary to the Theban recension of the Book of the dead, with an index to all the English equivalents of the Egyptian words - ID [178220784][7]: Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyph…