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Eyewitness: Mummy

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Our family is a big fan of these Eyewitness books and this is an excellent overview of all types of mummies.
As a warning however, there are quite a few gruesome photographs which might scare kids younger than 6 or 7 so a parent might want to check it out in a bookstore before buying sight unseen.

DK and Google have created a website and a book to encourage further study. This guide features age-appropriate links so children can learn more about this topic through interactive features, multimedia content, games and quizzes. They can also download images for projects.

Some of the topics in this book include:

Ancient Egypt
Masks and Coffins
Into the Underworld
Tomb Robbers
Famous Pharaohs
Peruvian Mummies
Inca Ice Mummies
An Artic Mystery
Frozen Tombs
Desert Discoveries
Modern-Day Mummies
Mummies on Display

If you have any interest in Egypt, this book is especially helpful and gives you additional links so you can go online to do further research. I think adults and children alike will enjoy seeing the artifacts and items like a painted treasure chest.

One of the strange stories in this book is about a perfectly preserved body that has now been nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty." Apparently the chemicals used to preserve her body have not been identified and she looks like she is sleeping.

Due to the content of this book, I will let you decide if this is appropriate for your child. This might be too frightening for children under the age of 9 or 10 but may be of interest to teenagers and adults.

Death is not the only focus of this book. The information about Pyramids being built to align with star constellations, archaeological discoveries and artic expeditions fill out the book nicely and give students an idea of how people lived. I found the items buried with the mummies to be even more interesting than the mummies themselves although the blue body from the bog was a little startling.

~The Rebecca Review

The Mummy Eyewitness book was the first one I ever received. It is excellent at conveying information because it has many interesting bits of information next to beautiful pictures.

I purchased this book because my 6 year old son was fascinated with Egypt. However, I would not recommend this book for a child of this age. The mummies are real in this book and there are a lot of them. It was even hard for me to stomach. As always, DK has illustrated a beautiful and detailed book-it was just the subject that was a little hard.