Mummies around the World: An Encyclopedia of Mummies in History, Religion, and Popular Culture

505 Pages·2014·4.52 MB·English

by  Matt Cardin

Mummies around
the World

Mummies around
the World
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUMMIES IN HISTORY,
RELIGION, AND POPULAR CULTURE
MattCardin,Editor
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Contents
List of Entries vii
Guide to RelatedTopics xi
Preface xv
Introduction xvii
Timeline xxv
The Encyclopedia 1
Bibliography 433
About theContributors 443
Index 451
v

List of Entries
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy Church of the Dead
Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium Cladh Hallan mummies
Alexander, Tenth Duke of Hamilton Coffin Texts
Animal mummies Collecting mummies
Anubis Corelli, Marie
Aufderheide, Arthur Carl Crypt mummies of Sommersdorf
The Awakening Castle
Bahariya Oasis: Valley of the Golden Dawson, Warren Royal
Mummies Displaying mummies
Belzoni, Giovanni Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
Bentham, Jeremy Doyle, Arthur Conan
Bioanthropology Research Institute Egyptian Antiquities Museum
Blackwood, Algernon Egyptian collection, the British
Bog bodies Museum
Book of the Dead Egyptian mummies
The Book of the Dead (anthology) Egyptian mummification methods
Brugsch, Emile Egyptomania
Bubba Ho-Tep Embalming
Buddhist self-mummification Experimental mummification
Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo Fire mummies: The Ibaloy mummies
of the Philippines
Carnarvon, Fifth Earl of (George
Herbert) Freund, Karl
Carter, Howard Gautier, Theophile
Chaney, Lon, Jr. Gebelein Man
Chinchorro mummies Genetic study of mummies
vii
viii List of Entries
German Mummy Project Mummies of Lithuania
Gliddon, George Robins Mummies of the World: The
Grauballe Man Exhibition
Greenhill, Thomas Mummies of Venzone
Haggard, H. Rider The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-
Second Century
Hammer Films mummy series
The Mummy (1932)
Hierakonpolis
The Mummy (1959)
Howard, Robert E.
The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy
Ice mummies
Returns
Imhotep
Mummy documentaries
Inca mummies
The mummy in popular culture
Incorruptibles
The mummy in Western fiction:
Isis
Beginnings to 1922
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The mummy in Western fiction: From
Juanita, the Inca Ice Maiden 1922 to the twenty-first century
Karloff, Boris Mummy movies
Kharis The mummy on television
Lee, Christopher Mummy portraits
Lenin, Vladimir Mummy unwrappings
Lindow Man Mummy’s curse
“Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy’s The Mummy’s Ghost and The
Curse” Mummy’s Curse
Lovecraft, H. P. The Mummy’s Hand
Manchester Egyptian Mummy Project The Mummy’s Tomb
The Manchester Mummy (Hannah Napoleon and the birth of Egyptology
Beswick)
Nasca mummies
Mariette, Auguste
Natural mummification
Marquise of Tai
Nesyamun or Natsef-amun, the Leeds
Medical imaging of mummies mummy
Medicine and mummies Opening of the Mouth
Mummies of Europe Osiris
Mummies of Ferentillo O¨tzi the Iceman
Mummies of Guanajuato Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph
Mummies of Latin America Poe, Edgar Allan
List of Entries ix
Quinn, Seabury Summum
Religion and mummies Swiss Mummy Project
Rice, Anne Theban Necropolis
Rohmer, Sax Tollund Man
Rosetta Stone Tutankhamun (“King Tut”)
Royal mummies of Egypt, Part One: Uhle, Max
Third to Eighteenth Dynasties
Universal Studios mummy series
Royal mummies of Egypt, Part Two:
Valley of the Kings
Nineteenth to Twenty-fifth Dynasties
Vatican Mummy Project
Ruffer, M. A.
“The Vengeance of Nitocris”
Seth
von Kahlbutz, Christian Friedrich
Siberian Ice Maiden/Ukok princess
Windeby Girl
Smith, Clark Ashton
The World Congresses on Mummy
Smith, Grafton Elliot
Studies
Smoked bodies of Papua New Guinea