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Egyptian mummies and modern science /
Egyptian mummies have always aroused popular and scientific interest; however, most modern studies, although significantly increased in number and range, have been published in specialist journals. Now, this unique book, written by a long-established team of scientists, brings this exciting, cross-d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Egyptian mummies have always aroused popular and scientific interest; however, most modern studies, although significantly increased in number and range, have been published in specialist journals. Now, this unique book, written by a long-established team of scientists, brings this exciting, cross-disciplinary area of research to a wider readership. It shows how this team's multidisciplinary, investigative methods and the unique resource of the Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank are being used for the new major international investigations of disease evolution and ancient Egyptian pharmacy and pharmacology. It also assesses the current status of palaeopathology and ancient DNA research, and treatments available for conserving mummified remains. Descriptions of the historical development of Egyptian mummifications and medicine and detailed references to previous scientific investigations provide the context for firsthand accounts of cutting-edge research by prominent specialists in this field, demonstrating how these techniques can contribute to a new perspective on Egyptology. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511378843 051137884X 0511377959 9780511377952 0511376111 9780511376115 9780511499654 0511499655 1281243388 9781281243386 9780511377051 0511377053 9781107662629 1107662621 1107178819 9781107178816 9786611243388 6611243380 0511374607 9780511374609 |