1. Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons, and Rituals
Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons, and Rituals By
Christopher
Sloane
Book Talk

2. Do you like Mummies?
King Tutankhamun

3. “Over thousands of years the Egyptians became
masters of the craft of preserving dead bodies.
After removing several organs and the brain
from the body, they used herbs that killed
bacteria to sterilize it. The body was then dried,
wrapped in many layers of linen strips, and
placed in a sarcophagus.” (p.27)

4. The Egyptians were not the only civilization that had specific burial traditions.
Pisco Mummy
Incan Mummy
Mummies in Palermo, Italy

5. “Deep within a man-made mountain in northern China lies the body of the first emperor of China. Archaeologists have been working for more than twenty years excavating the enormous tomb complex, which is the size of a small city. It took 700,000 workers 36 years to build this tomb complex”(p. 41).

6. China’s Terra Cotta Army
Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Terra Cotta Army.

7. “ In 1987 grave robbers found a Moche royal tomb filled with precious metals, ceramics, and textiles. The body of the “Lord of Sipan” was found along with another man and women who had their feet removed.” (p. 53).

8. The Moche of Peru

9. Come check out this book in the library!”