The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)

The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)

USD $18.95 Tamara Bower [Writer] Published by-Seven Stories Press

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About the The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)

A gorgeously illustrated story about a family of Egyptian embalmers that will enthrall kids with its mummy-making details and brilliantly painted pages.

From artist and Egypt specialist Tamara Bower comes her third, gorgeous book about Ancient Egypt. Using the classic style of Egyptian art, the book is painstakingly accurate in facts and illustrative style. Artifacts, funerary customs, kid-loving gory details of the mummification process, hieroglyphs, and details of life in ancient Egypt are told through the eyes of Ipy, whose father is embalmer to the King. Yuya, father of the Queen, has died and Ipy must help his father in the mummification process. Yuya is an actual mummy and the discovery of his tomb is an entertaining story in itself, with the archaeologist Theodore Davis fainting at the sight of so much gold, and the portly Gaston Maspero getting stuck while trying to climb into the tomb. Yuya's tomb was a spectacular discovery in the Valley of the Kings that was later overshadowed only by the discovery of King Tut, Yuya's great-grandson.

The book features sidebars of hieroglyphs and their meanings, a map, and an afterword telling more about the life of Yuya, of the burial process, and ancient Egypt in general. While there are a number of children's books on mummies, none are told from the point of view of the embalmers themselves, and none are illustrated with the meticulous eye of Tamara Bower.

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The price of "The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! Cincinnati (Blue Ash) is USD $18.95.

The publisher of "The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)" is Seven Stories Press.

The genres of "The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)" are Juvenile Fiction - Historical - Africa, Juvenile Fiction - Historical - Ancient Civilizations, and Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - Africa.

"The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).

The writer of "The Mummy Makers Of Egypt (Hardcover Book)" is Tamara Bower.