Eyewitness People have always wanted to live forever. This superb collection of photographs brings the story of how the ancient Egyptians and many other societies around the world preserved their dead, as well as the facts about ancient bodies accidentally preserved by ice and sand, vividly to life.Learn how different societies prepared for death, and see the bodies that escaped the ravages of time, from a man sacrificed and thrown into a bog in England in 300 B.C. to a woman freeze-dried in a cave in Greenland over 500 years ago. As well as mummies, their wrappings and decorated cases, X-rays and 3-D CAT scans get beneath the bandages and under the skin to reveal some surprising secrets about life - and death - lng ago.Produced in association with the British Museum, Mummy is a unique and compelling introduction to mummified bodies and what they tell us about our past.- Here is an exciting and informative guide to mummies, natural and embalmed- Superb colour photographs of preserved bodies - from the hunter who froze to death 5,300 years ago to the mummy of Ramesses the Great - offer a unique "eyewitness" view of how and why mummification developed- See the unwrapped bodies of Egyptian pharoahs; a Chinese princess buried in a suit of jade; the face of a copper-age hunter; a mummy that became a movie star; a Peruvian mummy from high in the Andes- Learn how bog people were sacrificed; why one 5,000-year-old mummy is called Ginger; the size of the longest crocodile mummy; how modern technology can see inside closed mummy cases- Discover how Sicilian monks bury their dead; what started the story of the mummy"s curse; how wealthy Egyptians took servants into the afterlife; the glittering treasures of Tutankamen