Mummies of the world

Weitere Verfasser: Rosendahl, Wilfried
Wieczorek, Alfried
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Munich ; New York : Prestel : American Exhibitions : Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftung für die Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, 2010.
Ausgabe: English ed.
Umfang/Format: 384 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Determination of mummy origins using molecular genetic analyses / Christina Rütze, Peter Forster and Joachim Burger
  • Isotopic analysis of keratin : information about living environment and nutrition / Hervé Bocherens
  • Chemical toxicological analysis of hair samples : evidence of narcotics in mummies, too? / Frank Musshoff and Burkhard Madea
  • Infested, cursed, contaminated : microbial and chemical contamination in mummies / Jens Klocke and Karin Petersen
  • Conservation of mummies : having bones to pick with the dead / Jens Klocke
  • Rapid prototyping in medical technology and its application in mummy research / Arthur T. Bens
  • Facial reconstruction of mummies : the example Baron von Holz / Ursula Wittwer-Backofen
  • Mummies and the media. "Dead or alive? Human or inhuman?" : mummies in film / Diana Wenzel
  • Mummies in print : exploring mummy books for children and young adults / Heather Gill-Frerking
  • Mummies from around the world. Frankfurt's dinosaur mummy / Bernd Herkner
  • Animal mummies found in lava caves in the Jordanian Desert / Stephan Kempe and Ahmad Al-Malabeh
  • Natural animal mummies on exhibit at the State Museum of Natural History in Braunschweig, Germany / Ulrich Joger
  • A mummified fire salamander found in a cave in the northern Franconian Alb of Germany / Brigitte Hilpert
  • Animal mummies from the Eve-Maria Zimmermann Collection, Tenerife, Canary Islands / Matthias Feuersenger
  • The salt mummy of a yellow-brown boxfish from Hurghada, Egypt / Matthias Feuersenger
  • Dima : the baby mammoth / Doris Döppes
  • Two unusual glacier animal mummies / Wilfried Rosendahl and Doris Döppes
  • The bog dog from Burlage / Markus Bertling, Heather Gill-Frerking and Wilfried Rosendahl
  • Bodies buried in bogs : the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands / Vincent T. Van Vilsteren
  • Egyptian animal mummies : the University of Bonn Collection / Gabriele Pieke and Silke Grallert
  • Interment, grave goods and eternal life in ancient Egypt : explained by objects from the University of Heidelberg / Dina Faltings
  • Two child mummies and some grave goods of the Byzantine Period from the Egyptian Collection at Heidelberg University, Germany / Beatrix Gessler-Löhr
  • Egyptian mummies : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.]
  • Egyptian mummies : the Merck Archives in Darmstadt / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif ... [et al.]
  • Egyptian mummy skulls : the Marburg Zoological Collection / Jan Harbort
  • The Egyptian mummies from Basel / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.]
  • The mummy and coffins of Nes-pa-kai-schuti / Dagmar Budde
  • The "mummy" from Jena / Matthias Rupp, Sabine Birkenbeil and Sandra Bock
  • An Asian mummy from the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.]
  • Mummies from Oceania : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Michael Tellenbach ... [et al.]
  • South American mummies from the Ethnological Collection of Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany / Mechtild Freudenberg
  • "Gray and brown" pre-Columbian mummies : the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold / Roger Meyer ... [et al.]
  • Peruvian mummies from Delémont, Switzerland / Anna-Maria Begerock ... [et al.]
  • Mummies from South America : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collections / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.]
  • Mummies found in the Dominican Church in Vác, Hungary / Ildikó Szikossy, Lilla Alida Kristóf and Ildikó Pap
  • Mummies from Palermo / Dario Piombino-Mascali ... [et al.]
  • The mummies from Sommersdorf Castle / Manfred Baron Von Crailsheim
  • Historical mummies of human fetuses at the Kassel Museum of Natural History / Jana Mesenholl, Kai Füldner and Wilfried Rosendahl.
  • Mummies : in nature and around the world. From flourishing life to dust : the natural cycle of growth and decay / Burkhard Madea, Johanna Preuss and Frank Musshoff
  • Natural mummification : rare, but varied / Wilfried Rosendahl
  • People from the ice / Angelika Fleckinger
  • Bog bodies : preserved bodies from peat / Heather Gill-Frerking
  • Mummies : a tour of the cultures. Mummies, mummification techniques and the cult of the dead in ancient Egypt : a chronological overview / Tanja Pommerening
  • Animal mummies and the worship of animals in ancient Egypt / Heimo Hohneck
  • Mummies in the Andean regions : the presence of the dead / Virginia and Michael Tellenbach
  • Mummies from Oceania : a brief overview / Eva-Maria Günther
  • Mummies in Australia : a special form of aboriginal burial rites / Corinna Erckenbrecht and Heinz H. Klaatsch
  • Mummies in China / Jeanette Werning
  • The Altai lady and her companions : mummies of the Scythian Pazyryk culture / Barbara Kerneck
  • Living Buddhas : mummies in Japan / Melanie Janssen-Kim
  • Mummies of the indigenous inhabitants on the Canary Islands / Ursula Thiemer-Sachse
  • Mummies in monasteries and churches : monks, popes and princes / Ina Wunn
  • Naturally mummified corpses from the Dominican Church in Vác, Hungary / Ildikó Szikossy ... [et al.]
  • A death - beyond life - Lenin, Mao, Evita / Luisa Reiblich
  • Mummification today : a very modern affair / Angela Graefen and Kurt W. Alt
  • Mumia and mummies in medicine and art. Mumia : from Ozokerite to cure-all / Tanja Pommerening
  • Mumia vera Aegyptiaca : a western apothecary's remedy / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif
  • "Mumia" and asphalt in the art of painting / Klaus Jürgen-Fischer
  • Mummies talk : modern mummy research methodologies. Mummy insights : x-ray analysis and computed tomography / Kurt W. Alt and Frank J. Rühli