title: The Mystery of the Egyptian Mummy
author:  Joyce Filer 
description: Grade 4-7--This book will have wide appeal for readers just becoming acquainted with the wonders of Egyptology as well as for those who are more knowledgeable. It begins with a helpful time line of ancient Egypt and introduces readers to Hornedjitef, a priest of the god Amun at the temple at Karnak. When found, his mummified body was in good condition. Using the priest's story as its framework, the book discusses what mummification is and the various ways it can happen, and thoroughly explains the Egyptians' complex funerary processes. The highly readable text is richly complemented throughout by full-color photographs (many with hieroglyphs) and X-ray and CAT scan images. The journey that the mummies took from their burial place to the British Museum is explained showing both the serious archaeological and opportunistic aspects of tomb excavation. Maps and photographs clearly indicate locations while re-imaging techniques show what some of the mummified individuals may have looked like in life. This book complements Carol Donoughue's The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs(Oxford, 1999).--Jennifer England, The Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # The Mysterious Mummy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Sax Rohmer
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  It was about five o'clock on a hot August afternoon, that a tall,
  
  
  thin man, wearing a weedy beard, and made conspicious by an
  
  
  ill-fitting frock-coat and an almost napless silk hat, walked into the
  
  
  entrance hall of the Great Portland Square Museum. He carried no
  
  
  stick, and, looking about him, as though unfamiliar with the building,
  
  
  he ultimately mounted the principal staircase, walking with a
  
  
  pronounced stoop, and at intervals coughing with a hollow sound.
  
  
  His gaunt figure attracted the attention of several people, among
  
  
  them the attendant in the Egyptain room. Hardened though he was to the
  
  
  eccentric in humanity, the man who hung so eagerly over the mummies of
  
  
  departed kings and coughed so frequently, nevertheless secured his
  
  
  instant attention. Visitors of the regulation type were rapidly
  
  
  thinning o