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Valley of the golden mummies : a giant cemetery / by Ruth Owen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Egypt's ancient secretsPublisher: New York, New York : Bearport Publishing, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781684020249
  • 1684020247
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Eyes in the sand -- A desert cemetery -- Excavating the corpses -- The golden mummies -- Making a mummy -- The people of the oasis -- Together for eternity -- Mr. X or Mrs. X?-- A mummy goes to Cairo -- The child mummies -- The ancient curse -- 10,000 Mummies! -- Egypt's ancient secrets.
Summary: In 1996, archaeologists made an incredible discovery--a huge, ancient burial place in the Western Desert of Egypt.As the team worked at the site, they discovered mummies encased in gold, jewels, coins, and jars that once held wine. What have archaeologists learned about life in ancient Egypt by studying the mummies? What secrets have the artifacts buried in the tombs revealed? And could it be possible that more than 10,000 ancient Egyptian mummies are buried in the valley?
List(s) this item appears in: Archaeology for Kids
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 932.2 O97 Available 33111008595304
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 932.2 O97 Available 33111008737773
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In 1996, archaeologists made an incredible discovery--a huge, ancient burial place in the Western Desert of Egypt. As the team worked at the site, they discovered mummies encased in gold, jewels, coins, and jars that once held wine. What have archaeologists learned about life in ancient Egypt by studying the mummies? What secrets have the artifacts buried in the tombs revealed? And could it be possible that more than 10,000 ancient Egyptian mummies are buried in the valley?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eyes in the sand -- A desert cemetery -- Excavating the corpses -- The golden mummies -- Making a mummy -- The people of the oasis -- Together for eternity -- Mr. X or Mrs. X?-- A mummy goes to Cairo -- The child mummies -- The ancient curse -- 10,000 Mummies! -- Egypt's ancient secrets.

In 1996, archaeologists made an incredible discovery--a huge, ancient burial place in the Western Desert of Egypt.As the team worked at the site, they discovered mummies encased in gold, jewels, coins, and jars that once held wine. What have archaeologists learned about life in ancient Egypt by studying the mummies? What secrets have the artifacts buried in the tombs revealed? And could it be possible that more than 10,000 ancient Egyptian mummies are buried in the valley?

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