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 e    nsCe erjo.Gllan Dche7y  \nContents  \n4 Mummies and pyramids28 Beastly bodies6 The afterlife30 Myths and movies8 Making mummies32 Fakes and frauds10 Coffins and cases34 Unwrapping a mummy12 Funerals and grave goods 36 The mummy speaks14 Houses of eternity38 Mummies around the world16 The pyramid builders40 Natural mummies18 Pyramid power42 Unsolved mysteries20 Tomb raiders44 An ongoing quest22 Mummy mania46 Using the Internet24 The tomb of Tutankhamun47 Index26 Tutankhamun fever48Acknowledgements  \nInternet links  \nLook for the Internet links boxesthroughout this book.They containdescriptions of Web sites where you canfind out more about mummies andpyramids.For Jinks to these Web sites,go to www.usborne-quicklinks.com andtype the keywords \"discovery mummies\".  \nNext to some of the pictures in thebook you will see a symbol like this.Wherever you see one of thesesymbols,it means that you can downloadthe picture from the Usborne QuicklinksWeb site.For more information on using theInternet,and downloading Usborne pictures,see inside the front cover and page 46.  \nCover:A statue of the pharaoh Ramesses Il  \nTitle page:The pyramids at Giza  \nLeft:The funeral mask of Tutankhamun  \nMummies and pyramids  \nncient Egypt was a long,narrowHcountry along the River Nile.By  \n5,000 years ago,the Egyptians hadcreated one of the world's first greatcivilizations.But they are particularlyfamous for two reasons:they preserveddead people as mummies,and they builthuge pyramids as tombs.  \n# What is a mummy?\n\nA mummy is a preserved dead body.Normally,the body of a person or animalstarts to decay soon after death,butmummies don't rot like this.  \nMummification (making mummies)wasvery important to the ancient Egyptians.  \n# Internet links\n\nFor a link to a Web site where you can find outmore about everyday life for rich people andpoor people in ancient Egypt,go towww.usborne-quicklinks.com  \n# Why\"mummies\"?\n\nPeople once thought that the Egyptiansused a sticky,black substance calledbitumen to preserve their dead.TheArabic word for bitumen is mummiya,and from this we get the word\"mummy\".  \n# Pyramid tombs\n\nThe Book of the Dead  \nMagic charms like this heart amuletwere buried with mummies,to helppeople survive the Underworld.  \nWhile they were alive,Egyptians learned magicspells to help them facethe perils of the Underworld.About 3,500 years ago,thesespells were collected andwritten down in a book knownas the Book of the Dead.Wealthypeople were buried with a copy of  \nWeighing the heart  \nThe greatest test came at theend.your heart was weighedagainst a feather,and your life  \nwas judged by Osiris.If your heart  \nwas heavy with wickedness,it would  \nbe gobbled up by a monster.But peoplewho had lived a good life could enterthe Field of Reeds.  \nthis book,hoping that the spellsinside it would protect them on theirjourney through the Underworld.  \nThis scene from the Book of the Dead shows a person's heart being weighed.  \nAnubis,god of embalming,held the dead person's hand.  \nOsiris sat on his throneand judged the dead person.  \nAmmit the 'devourer,who atethe hearts of wicked people  \n# The royal afterlife\n\nInternet links  \nThe powerful pharaohs were the onlyones who had a different afterlife.Instead of going to the Field of Reeds,they became gods and floated up to jointhe other gods in the sky.  \nFor a link to a Web site where you can usemagic spells to defend yourself as you take ajourney through the Egyptian Underworld,goto www.usborne-quicklinks.com  \nFact:The Egyptians had hundreds of gnds ansf gndnis0 r  looked after everytling from bakung nedofmg            \n# Making mummies\n\nA grisly job  \nThe ancient Egyptians were the most  \nkillod  nddodicatod mummySkilled and dedicated mummy-It took the Egyptians 70 days tomakers in history.Preserving the deadmummify,or embalm,a body,and thewas important to their culture,and theyembalmers had 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