false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217837642m/1449922.jpg 1449922 2 <p>Sand in their bread caused serious tooth problems for the ancient Egyptians, peasants and pharaohs alike.Skull surgery was commonly performed by the Inca Indians of Peru. A thick soup made of grain and seeds was a typical winter meal in Denmark during the Iron Age. How can we be so sure of what ancient life was like? Largely because, in recent years, mummies have begun to "talk" to scientists who study them for clues to the distant past. X-rays reveal mumm ies that have never been unwrapped. The shape of the face appears, and resemblances may establish family relationships. In the bones of a mummy, medical scientists can read age at death, signs of disease, fractures that healed. Teeth yield information about diet and health. Sometimes a mummy offers a surprise: an Egyptian mummy is found to have two skulls; another, long thought to be the child of a high priestess, turns out to be a baboon. Sometimes a mummy tells a moving story: examination of a girl's mummy shows she lived her short life in considerable pain; a man's mummy, with broken bones and slit throat, proves he met a violent death.Generously illustrated with photographs ranging from the gruesome to the starkly beautiful, Tales Mummies Tell is a remarkable account of mummies -- intriguing talebearers from the pastand of the ways scientists unlock their secrets.</p> 1440649 11 1985 Tales Mummies Tell total:7|5:2|4:3|3:0|2:2|1:0| 7 26 13 3 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 19:19:02 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 19:19:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 20 12:26:17 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 12:29:36 -0700 2008 1 5 0 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 18:48:14 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 12:37:54 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 16:18:44 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 16:18:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 13 16:57:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 16:57:27 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Sep 15 17:09:48 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 17:09:48 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 21 11:18:47 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 11:18:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 02 20:56:05 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 20:56:05 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Mar 21 21:37:40 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 21:37:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 01 20:27:47 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 20:27:49 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Aug 04 01:11:10 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 01:11:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jan 17 12:42:42 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 12:42:42 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Sep 27 20:05:42 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 20:05:48 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1449922