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BOOKS ABOUT STRANGE MUMMIES
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Although
all mummies might be considered odd, some are
definitely stranger than others. Here are some books you might like
to know about:
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Surveys
of Odd Mummies
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 NEW!
The
Dying Game: A Curious History of Death
"It's all here, from
plastinated bodies in museums...to ancient forensic science and
Buddhist monks who embalm themselves.... This is a ...wide-ranging survey of deathways past and
present."
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Stiff:
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Mummy
Dearest: How Two Guys in a Potato Chip Truck Changed the Way the Living See
the Dead
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Strange
Museum Mummies
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Mutter
Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Mutter
Museum Historic Medical Photographs
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Stuffed
Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History
Museums
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Postcards
from the Brain Museum
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The
Phantom Museum and Henry Wellcome's Collection Of Medical Curiosities
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Shrunken
Heads: Tsantsa Trophies and Human Exotica
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Mermaids,
Mummies, and Mastodons: The Emergence of the American Museum
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A
Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive &
Collection, 1843-1939
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Saints
and Sinners
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The
Deaths of the Popes: Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial
Places and Epitaphs
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The
Living Dead: Inside the Palermo Crypt
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Magnificent
Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head...and Other Saintly Relics
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The
Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various
Catholic Saints and Beati
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Truth, Myth and
Legend
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The
Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy
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Elmer
McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American
Outlaw
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Lenin's
Embalmers
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The
Mummy at the Dining Room Table
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The
Two-headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels
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A
Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
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Lucy's
Bones, Sacred Stones, and Einstein's Brain
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Jumbo's
Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha
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