What Is the Story of the Mummy? by Sheila Keenan (English) Hardcover Book

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Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library!The Mummy joins other classic horror characters Dracula and Frankenstein in our What Is the Story Of? series.Unlike the other classic Universal horror movie monsters of their time, the Mummy's origins can't be found in the pages of a book. His story was inspired by the opening of King Tut's tomb in 1922. The world fell in love with all things Egyptian and was enthralled with stories of ancient mummies. The film producers of the early Dracula and Frankenstein films wasted no time creating a character who's been creeping out of his coffin and entertaining audiences since 1932. Author Sheila Keenan explains the history of the movie and its remakes, the legendary curse of King Tut's mummy, and what lies ahead for this monstrous creature.

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Sheila Keenan is an established author of fiction and nonfiction for young people. Her books include the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Dogs of War, the picture book As the Crow Flies, I Spy The Illuminati Eye, and O, Say Can You See? America's Symbols, Landmarks and Inspiring Words, among other selected titles. She lives in New York City.

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What Is the Story of the Mummy? The Ministry of State for Antiquities is the name of the government group responsible for preserving the culture and heritage of Egypt. In October 2019, the ministry sent out a special invitation: Meet us at the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. The Egyptian and international press and all the other invited guests arrived at the grand stone temple beneath high cliffs on the west bank of the Nile River near the city of Luxor. Dr. Khaled al--Anany, minister of tourism and antiquities, and Dr. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, had an important announcement to make. Everyone streamed into a large white tent set up on the temple grounds. The press jostled forward, cameras raised. Then eight experts on ancient history wearing white lab coats and plastic gloves slowly, carefully, and dramatically . . . unsealed a coffin that hadn''t been opened in three thousand years! The crowd cheered and clapped as the coffin lid, brightly painted with symbols and hieroglyphs, was lifted off. The inner coffin was also decorated in rich colors. Inside lay a perfectly preserved cloth--wrapped mummy. The mummy was one of thirty uncovered in a nearby burial ground called El-Assasif. The find included the mummified remains of twenty--three men, five women, and two children. The mummy coffins were stacked on top of one another in two alternating levels: eighteen above, twelve underneath. The El--Assasif mummy collection was the first to be discovered by an all--Egyptian archaeological team. It was also one of the largest finds in decades and the first in Luxor since the end of the nineteenth century. Even more remarkable: The mummies had escaped tomb raiders and grave robbers for three thousand years! Every one of the coffins was still sealed. Thirty seemed to be a magic number for the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The week before, another of their teams excavated a different ancient area in Luxor''s Valley of the Monkeys. There they found the remains of thirty workshops and a large kiln for firing ceramics. Archaeologists think this was where the many decorative items, furniture, and pottery that were buried with mummies in royal tombs had been made. Coverage of the finds at El--Assasif and the Valley of the Monkeys was shown on television stations and spread over social media. Photos and videos were instantly available. Mummies make good news stories. That''s because people in the twenty--first century are still fascinated by mummification, a process that is thousands of years old. Chapter 1: Matters of Life and Death Most people would agree on two basic facts: All living things die, and dead things decay and rot. Usually when humans, animals, and other living things die, their bodies decompose, or begin to break down. Microscopic life-forms called bacteria help with this process. They break down the body''s cells, muscles, organs, and tissues, like skin. A decomposing body smells and oozes, which attracts hungry insects. Eventually it turns into liquid. This life--and--death cycle provides food for other living things and enriches the soil. Unless the cycle is broken. Mummies are bodies that have not fully decayed. They can still have hair on their heads or skin on their bones! A body that has gone through the mummification process does not decompose all the way. Mummies have been found on every continent. Some are accidental, or natural, mummies created by the environment in which the dead body came to rest. In the right very hot, very cold, or very marshy area, a dead body will be preserved and keep some of its solid state. The world''s oldest frozen mummy is nicknamed

Details ISBN152478849X Author Carlos Basabe Pages 112 Series What Is the Story Of? Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 152478849X ISBN-13 9781524788490 Publication Date 2021-08-17 Imprint Penguin Workshop Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-08-17 NZ Release Date 2021-08-17 US Release Date 2021-08-17 UK Release Date 2021-08-17 Audience Age 8-12 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Illustrator Carlos Basabe DEWEY 791.43675 Audience Children / Juvenile We've got this

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