Mummy Dearest: How Two Men in a Potato Chip Truck Changed the Way the Living See the Dead

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Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue, the unlikely hosts of the National Geographic Channel's popular The Mummy Road Show, recount their adventures both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as they travel the world in a converted Charles Chips delivery van. Beckett and Conlogue pioneered the combined use of radiography and endoscopy to unlock the mysteries of the world’s most baffling mummies--and in the process breathed new life into an old science.

Their work has led to startling discoveries and unique insights on how people throughout human history have lived and died, and how cultures related to living and dying. Abundantly illustrated and ...
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Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue, the unlikely hosts of the National Geographic Channel's popular The Mummy Road Show, recount their adventures both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as they travel the world in a converted Charles Chips delivery van. Beckett and Conlogue pioneered the combined use of radiography and endoscopy to unlock the mysteries of the world’s most baffling mummies--and in the process breathed new life into an old science.

Their work has led to startling discoveries and unique insights on how people throughout human history have lived and died, and how cultures related to living and dying. Abundantly illustrated and refreshingly informal and candid, Mummy Dearest includes features such as “Smile and Say Yeesh,” which provides a new perspective on dental hygiene, “Diamonds are a Ghoul’s Best Friend,” an inventory of cool stuff looters left behind, and “Don’t Try This at Home,” a mummification how-to. Mummy Dearest moves easily from serious science to lighthearted fun and back, and ultimately serves as an entertaining travelogue of a surprising journey of discovery.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592285440
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/2005
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 7.54 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue were hosts of the National Geographic Channel's popular The Mummy Road Show. When not searching the world for the latest mummy investigation, they find time to attend to professorships at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
1 Road Warriors 1
Up with People 6
Whale of a Tale 19
2 We See Dead People-Ron Beckett 27
Mummies for Dummies 28
Hey, Taxi! 33
Monkey Business 38
Arsenic and Old Face 43
3 Have Bones, Will Travel-Jerry Conlogue 51
Steamy Stuff 59
Where the Dead Things Are 64
4 Mummy Mementos-Ron Beckett 69
Fascination with Plastination 74
The Eyes Have It 81
5 Like Family-Jerry Conlogue 85
Parental Guidance 86
The Mummy Who Out-Acted Lee Majors 98
6 That's Gotta Hurt-Ron Beckett 105
Dragon Breath 106
You Rang? 118
Putting the Hip in Hippie 120
7 Grave Matters-Jerry Conlogue 123
The Buc Stops Here 129
A Line in the Sand 136
Money Matters 140
8 All These Years Mummy's Been Faking It-Ron Beckett 141
Giving a New Meaning to "Jar Head" 149
Skin Deep 152
9 That's A Warp-Jerry Conlogue 159
Of Mice and an Enterprising Man 161
Heart and Soul 173
Two for the Road Show 176
Appendix 181
Jerry on Ron 181
Ron on Jerry 183
Live Ones: People Who Should Be Mummified Immediately 185
Wrap Stars: Mummies We'd Like a Crack At 186
Dying to Know More: Mummies We Still Have So Many Questions About 186
Check, Please: Weirdest Meals We've Eaten 187
Buried Treasures: Movies You Could Take Your Mummy To 188
Credits [need title for this section] 191

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