Full name: The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead

Author: Heather Pringle Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Science Culture: Egypt Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780786884636 0786884630

Now available in paperback--The Mummy Congress is "clear, direct and intense . . . all the stories sparkle. Pringle is a crack-shot storyteller." --New York Times Book Review Perhaps the most eccentric of all scientific meetings, the World Congress on Mummy Studies brings together mummy experts from all over the globe and airs their latest findings. Who are these scientists, and what draws them to this morbid yet captivating field? The Mummy Congress, written by acclaimed science journalist Heather Pringle, examines not just the world of mummies, but also the people obsessed with them. Similar books: The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke Ice Mummy by Mark Dubowski Bury the Dead by Christopher Sloan Homo Britannicus by Chris Stringer Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak Out of Eden by Stephen Oppenheimer Ancient North America by Brian Fagan The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean Krakatoa by Simon Winchester The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan