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Mummies of the Pharaohs: Modern Medical Investigations (1990)
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Maurice Bucaille
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This is an English translation of the original French work Les Momies des Pharaons et la Médecine. Ramsès II à Paris. Le Pharaon et Moïse (Paris: Librairie Séguier, 1987) by Alastair D. Pannell and the Author.
The French edition won a 1988 History Prize from the Académie Française
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xx, 236 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm
Translation of: Les momies des pharaons et la médecine
Includes index
pt. 1. From embalmer to Egyptologist. Mummification -- The sepulchers -- pt. 2. The medical examination of mummies. Which royal mummies have come down to us so far? -- The mummy of Tutankhamun : destruction and lost opportunities -- The camouflage of the dismemberment of Tutankhamun's mummy and the problem of the curse of Tutankhamun -- Data observed at the examination of other mummies -- The decay and deterioration of the royal mummies -- pt. 3. Modern medical investigations. Microscopic research -- X-ray examination -- Dental state -- Endoscopic examination -- The royal mummies and the problem of their cranial lacunae -- pt. 4. The Pharaoh and Moses. The problem as it stands : existing documents -- The Exodus and its place in the chronology of the Pharaohs -- The body of Merneptah, Pharaoh of the Exodus, and what became of it -- pt. 5. The mummy of Ramesses II in Paris. Difficult preliminaries -- A useful decision -- The mummy at the Museum of Anthropology -- Irradiation and conservation -- Initial Egyptian reactions -- pt. 6. Unsolved problems concerning the mummy of Ramesses II. The mummy -- The display case -- The absence of air conditioning -- A survey carried out nine years later -- Possible resolutions offered by the Getty Conservation Institute