Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt

by Lila Perl, Erika Weihs (Illustrator)

A fascinating and thorough account of the Egyptian process of mummification and efforts to safeguard places of burial against thieves.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Egypt

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Anita Morrow · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have always had a deep interest for Egyptians and their believes . This book covered a lot of basics over the mummification process and the different gods that was supposedly worshipped.

[Mohitha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Egypt was always a facination to me. it always had a mysterious history. this book tells everything about ancient Egypt like thier gods, rituals, mummies , Pharoahs. has many interesting photos to look at too.

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good book if you enjoy learning about ancient Egypt. One I read when I was younger, but still a good read!

[Evelyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Mloy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes I fancy myself an amateur Egyptologist (Who am I kidding? I'm a full-pledge delusional) and I do love books on the subject; so when I saw this on the shelf, I had to quickly snatch it up and this little impulse buy did not disappoint. The book was chock full of information about the mummification process, tons of imagery- from drawings, a tombs floor plans and real-life photographs. The book covers practically everything related to Egyptian mummies including the kind of accidental discovery of how the dessert conditions preserved the human body, the different deities connected to the afterlife, and highlights the cultural and religious significance of the mummy-making practice. It even has a snippet about how some Europeans' insane interest in mummies (and some twisted notion of being an everything-that-ails-you-cure) caused some profiteering individuals to start synthetically "manufacturing" mummies to keep up with the demand-- pretty ghastly and a shade on the morbid side, no? Seriously though, the history of this consistently fascinating ancient civilization is always educational and never, ever a boring read.

[Danielle Woolard · Rating 4 out of 5]

You know what, I am straight up not mad at this book. For sure it's written for middle school age children, and it reads that way - with cheesy questions for the reader.

But the fact that this book was originally published in 1987 in the United States, and now almost 40 years later, it's not reading as " "accidentally racist" " is kind of a very big deal to me at this point.

I really like the illustrations and photographs, and the book actually talks about several different Egyptian gods, the Rosetta Stone and the Book of the Dead and what those means to history, and the author did not shy away from the more ....gruesome and uncomfortable parts of our history with mummies. (Like how the brain was removed, and the common uses for mummy dust)

About 2hrs of reading start to finish.

[Kyle.b · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great! It's about ancient Egypt and there mummies. They tell you how they mummify them, why they built mummies, and much more. It also talks about how and where they buried regular people. So far, this is one of the best non-fiction books I ever read! So I highly recommend reading this book, especially if you what to learn about Egyptian Mummies.

[Gabrielle Link · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that I know some of the things they were talking about, but some I didn't know about!

[Jimmie Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gives a good basic understanding

[Russell Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first nonfiction book on Ancient Egypt I read as a child, now reread with my son. He enjoyed it very much and it has held up pretty well over the years.

[Manon Buderus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of lots of interesting facts organized well with description.