This title is a valuable resource to students learning about all aspects of mummies from embalming techniques to recent discoveries. Discover amazing facts - Tutankhamun's mummy was kept in not just one, but three coffins, one inside the other. These were then kept inside another four box-like shrines.

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What are mummies?; natural mummies; a land lost in time; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; making a mummy; wrapping up; mummy masks; amulets and magic charms; mummy cases; into the sarcophagus; taking it with you; workers for the afterlife; the mummy and the god Osiris; the royal mummies; the treasures of Tutankhamun; curse of the mummy; Greek and Roman mummies; animal mummies; unwrapping the mummy's secrets; mummies of the Andes; the Iceman; bog mummies; the mummies of Sicily; other mummies; did you know?; timeline; find out more.