BOOK NAME: Mummies (National Geographic Kids)AUTHOR: Elizabeth Carney
Mummies is about how mummies are made, and some famous mummies and different kinds of mummies. If a person is buried in a bog, they will be protected and can turn into a mummy. A mummy's hair color can even stay if it's buried in a bog.
Other mummies are wrapped in linen. It's a special kind of cloth. They put them in a giant box called a sarcophagus. They stay in there for a long long time. You can find them in deserts, caves and other places. But you mostly see them unburied in museums like in Washington, D.C.
Two hikers found a very famous mummy named Otzi. Scientists found an arrow in his back and they think that's how he died 5,300 years ago.
The book also tells you how Egyptians made mummies:
1. You take out the organs.
2. You take out the brain with a long hook and stick it up his nose and pull his brain out of his nose.
3. You wash his body and put salt on him.
4. You let him dry for 40 days.
5. You rub special oil on the body.
6.You wrap him up with linen and then put him in the sarcophagus.
In 1922, King Tut was found in a cave. He was 15 years old when he died and he was a king 3,300 years ago. Sometimes they find special gold and money where mummies were buried. You can see King Tut in his cave where he was found.
There can also be animal mummies. There can be dogs, cats, monkeys and even crocodile mummies!
I liked this book a lot. It was a really good book for my age.
mummies cool
u got that from national geographic!
awesome
i love non-fiction!
That's very interesting.I didn't particularly like the part about pulling the brain out of the mummy's nose, but maybe i should check it out.
Oh, hey, I love mummies! Oh...that sounds kinda weird. Um, anyhew, one teacher I had spent like a whole semester studying Ancient Egypt, so I'm like an EXPERT now. Actually, I already knew most of the stuff, because...I read too much.
We watched this video where this like real-live (mad) scientist MUMMIFIED A REAL (thankfully dead already) PERSON. Based on how the Ancient Egyptians did it. Very nasty. Then, we had to go to lunch. You can imagine that we had all lost our appetites.
I think that sounds really gross, but kind of cool.
mummies r so cool to learn about if you like mummies all raise ur hands hahaha
this has got a pretty nasty face going on there. of corse it's not his fault he died like that. i've ALWAYS enjoyed reading about egypt. how they lived and there religion alone was so intesting. i don't really like reading about any other ancient citybut this one. all about itis so interesting.
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mummies scare me... and I love non-fiction too
mummys are weird because the egyptians did some gross things to the pharoes.
i havent read this book before but it sounds pretty awesome that i should check it out. im new on this website and im looking around and saw this.I LOVE MUMMIES!they are incredibely cool.
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awesome i love mummies i also thank who put this on here it's a big help on my homework!!!