Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt

by Lila Perl Yerkow, Erika Weihs (Illustrator)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395547960
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/24/1990
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)
Lexile:	NC1090L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Lila Perl Yerkow (1921-2013) received a B. A. from Brooklyn College and studied at both Columbia University and New York University. She began writing children's books when her children started elementary school. Yerkow wrote more than 60 books in her lifetime, including the Fat Glenda series, The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are, and Behind Barbed Wire: The Story of Japanese Internment During World War II. In 1996, she co-authored Marion Blumenthal Lazan's memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. 
 

Table of Contents

1	The First Egyptian Mummies	1
2	Why the Egyptians Made Mummies	13
3	How a Mummy Was Made	29
4	The Mummy's Tomb	47
5	The Mummy's Afterlife	63
6	The Mummy's Treasure and the Tomb Robbers	77
7	The Last of the Mummies	97
	Bibliography	113
	Index	115

Editorial Reviews

"An impressively researched and invitingly written volume." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review —

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