Here are links to primary source
accounts related to ancient Egypt and mummification.
Giovanni
Belzoni (a mummy excavator, otherwise known as a tomb robber, who in
1820 wrote a fascinating and disturbing account of his discovery of some mummies
in Egypt)
Book
of the Dead (a glimpse of some of the spells contained in this important
work)
Howard
Carter (the
man who discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922 described his emotional reaction as
he realized what he had found)
Mary
Chubb (an excavator during the
early 1930s who uncovered a statue of King Tut's wife, Ankhesenpaaten and
wrote a thoughtful description of that moment)
Diodorus
( a Greek historian from the 1st Century BC who wrote about the techniques Egyptians used for
mummification)
Herodotus
(an earlier Greek historian from the 5th Century BC who wrote about the techniques Egyptians used for
mummification)
