Secrets of the Dead: Mummies and Other Human Remains from Around the World (British Museum) - Hardcover

Ralphs, Matt

 
9798887770819: Secrets of the Dead: Mummies and Other Human Remains from Around the World (British Museum)
Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9798887770819
Verlag: Nosy Crow, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Travel back in time to discover the secrets that lay among mummies and other human remains from around the world.


From ancient Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies to the plaster citizens of Pompeii, painted people of the Steppe, and Japanese self-mummifying monks, this book reveals what scientists and experts have uncovered about our ancestors' lives from the bodies they left behind. Find out what people of the past ate, wore, believed in, and much more in this unique and intricately illustrated book.


With engaging text by Matt Ralphs, written in consultation with experts from the British Museum, and historically accurate and detailed artwork by Gordy Wright, this is a book that will captivate and enlighten readers with an interest in history, archaeology, and anthropology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matt Ralphs is a freelance writer of children's fiction and nonfiction. While working for many years as an editor, he helped other writers create novels, comics, and lavish art books. He lives on the Grand Union Canal in England on a boat he christened Nostromo because Alien is his favorite movie.

Gordy Wright (Illustrator)
Gordy is a UK based illustrator, printmaker and picture book maker who grew up in a small town on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. He later moved south to Bristol to study illustration at the University of the West of England. When he's not painting and making books he enjoys being outside, be it riding his bike, having mini adventures in the countryside or just watching the birds in the garden. He also has an unhealthy addiction to collecting houseplants. More of Gordy's work can be found at gordywright.com.

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Verlag
Nosy Crow
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 13 
9798887770819
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
Wright Gordy
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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