The Best Book of Mummies [antikvár]

A secret tombImagine opening up the secret tomb of someone who has been dead for thousands of years. You peer into the darkness. Is that a glint of gold? You hold up a candle. The chamber is filled with treasure. Beyond, there are other chambers, too. In one of them, you hope to discover the coffin of a dead pharaoh, a king of ancient Egypt. What will be inside the coffin? A crumbling skeleton? Probably not. The bodies of the pharaohs were specially preserved, so that they would last forever.Face of a mummyMeet Seti I, an Egyptian king. Seti died about 3,300 years ago! When he died, his body was made into a mummy, to preserve it and keep it whole. Sometimes dead bodies become mummies naturally, dried out in sand or frozen in ice. But the ancient Egyptians made mummies on purpose.