num_pages: 384
description: The Mummy Congress takes us on a journey over five continents and back nearly 7,000 years. Pringle tells how mummies have been venerated as saints, fought over by politicians, collected as artistic treasures and investigated for clues to ancient civilization's drug use. In these pages lie child mummies of northern Chile, preserved household pets of ancient Egypt and the new crop of mummification services being hyped on the internet. A powerful and stimulating look at mummies, The Mummy Congress also turns our vision inwards towards our fears of mortality and our dreams of eternal life.
language: English
title: The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
titlecomplete: The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
genres: Religion, Death, Science, Travel, Medieval, Archaeology, Egypt, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 824
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
publisher: Hyperion