What did death mean to the ancient Egyptians and why did they want to preserve the appearance of life for all eternity? This book examines the mummies - the key to an amazing amount of information about life and death in the time of the pharoahs.

Mummies A Journey Through Eternity (New Horizons) /anglais

Politics & Social Sciences

Dunand, Françoise

Social Sciences

Thames&Hudson

"Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has the benefit of all the methods and means at the disposal of forensic medicine. The 'mummy stories' we tell have changed their tone, but they have enjoyed much success, with fantastic scientific and technological results resolving the mysteries of the ancient land of the pharaohs."―from the Foreword
Mummies are the things that fascinate us most about ancient Egypt. But what are mummies? How did the Egyptians create them? And why? What became of the people they once were? We are learning more all the time about the cultural processes surrounding mummification and the medical characteristics of ancient Egyptian mummies. In the first part of Mummies and Death in Egypt Françoise Dunand gives an overview of the history of mummification in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Roman period. She thoroughly describes the preparations of the dead (tombs and their furnishings, funerary offerings, ornamentation of the corpse, coffins, and canopic jars), and she includes a separate chapter on the mummification of animals. She links these various practices and behaviors to the religious beliefs of classical Egypt. 
In the second part of this book, Roger Lichtenberg, a physician and archaeologist, offers a fascinating narrative of his forensic research on mummies, much of it conducted with a portable X-ray machine on archaeological digs. His findings have revealed new information on the ages of the mummified, their causes of death, and the illnesses and injuries they suffered. Together, Dunand and Lichtenberg provide a state-of-the-art account of the science of mummification and its social and religious context.

Mummies and Death in Egypt

History

Lichtenberg, Roger

Americas

Cornell University Press

In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of anthropology, the authors discuss such topics as the identities, images, and functions of the gods; rituals and liturgies; personal forms of piety expressing humanity's need to establish a direct relation with the divine; and the afterlife, a central feature of Egyptian religion. That religion, the authors assert, was characterized by the remarkable continuity of its ritual practices and the ideas of which they were an expression.
Throughout, Dunand and Zivie-Coche take advantage of the most recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship. Gods and Men in Egypt is unique in its coverage of Egyptian religious expression in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Written with nonspecialist readers in mind, it is largely concerned with the continuation of Egypt's traditional religion in these periods, but it also includes fascinating accounts of Judaism in Egypt and the appearance and spread of Christianity there.

Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE

Zivie-Coche, Christiane

Religion & Spirituality

An accessible pocketbook, full of beautiful colour plates, is written in a vigorous, popular style. The history of investigation and information on modern approaches are combined with detailed reconstructions of mummification techniques and the Egyptian societies who employed them. Not for the squeamish!

Discoveries: Mummies (Discoveries Series)

Ancient Civilizations

Harry N. Abrams

LES MOMIES: UN VOYAGE DANS L'ETERNITE

Reference

Gallimard]

Étude de trois millénaires et demi d'existence de la religion  égyptienne pour retracer ses évolutions et influences  successives. Les auteurs présentent les noms et images, les  rituels et liturgies, les pratiques religieuses, l'élaboration d'un  imaginaire de l'au-delà.

Hommes et Dieux en Egypte: 3000 a.C. - 395 p.C. (French Edition)

Zivie-Coche, Christiane M.

Librairie Cybèle

English summary: This Presentation takes Egypt's entire history into account. Reaching from the beginning to the end of this culture, it also takes the end of the religion of the pharaohs into account. Next to Greeks, Judeans, Syrians and Christians came to Egypt. How did the people of this poly cultural Old Egypt define the relationship to the gods during their lives and after their death? How did they construct the relationship between the real physical world and the invisible world, that was seen as just as real as the physical world. Along the questions these issues follow: relationship between the political and the religious, the term godly, service to the gods and personal devotion, the world of the dead and burial traditions. German description: In dieser Darstellung wird die gesamte Geschichte Agyptens in den Blick genommen: von ihren Anfangen bis zum Ende dieser Kultur, mit dem auch die Praxis der Religion der Pharaonen endete. Schon in fruhen Zeiten hatte Agypten Fremde und ihre Gotter aufgenommen, vor allem Gottheiten syro-palastinischen Ursprungs. Neben den Griechen lebten seit mehreren Jahrhunderten auch Judaer im Land, schliesslich kam das Christentum nach Agypten. Wie haben die Menschen dieses plurikulturellen Alten Agypten ihr Verhaltnis zu den Gottern, die sie sich gegeben hatten, zu Lebzeiten und nach dem Tod gesehen? Wie haben sie die Beziehungen zwischen ihrer realen physischen Welt und der Welt des Unsichtbaren, die als ebenso real galt wie die sichtbare, gestaltet? Unter diesen Fragestellungen ergeben sich die Themen: die Beziehungen zwischen dem Politischen und dem Religiosen; der Begriff des Gottlichen; der Dienst fur die Gotter und die personliche Frommigkeit; die Welt der Toten und die Bestattungspraktiken.

Die Religionen Des Alten Agypten (Die Religionen der Menschheit, 8) (German Edition)

Zivie-Coche, C.

Kohlhammer Verlag

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