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The Gist: Confessions Of A Tomb Raider
$23.95
Science writer Heather Pringle followed archaeologists and anthropologists to the World Congress on Mummy Studies in Arica, Chile, to research the people who specialize in preserved cadavers. She came away with this study in the psychology of immortality.
In a detailed yet accessible manner, Pringle delves into the sordid history of mummies. Europeans plundered the Egyptian variety through the mid-19th century to make umber-hued paint, a fad that started when artists erroneously thought that a carbonized substance called mumiya came from mummies. The ancient Chilean Chinchorro preserved their dead children and kept them around for comfort. And then there's the exploding king. In 1087, efforts to embalm William the Conqueror failed disastrously: During the funeral mass, the corpse, swollen with fetid gases, burst.
As for me, I'd like to be stuffed and mounted on a ship's prow.
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