momies des pharaons et la médecine: Ramsès II à Paris, le pharaon et Moïse

by Maurice Bucaille

French

Genres: Egypt, History

247 pages, Board Book

First published August 1, 1987

About the author

Maurice Bucaille was a French medical doctor, member of the French Society of Egyptology, and an author. Bucaille practiced medicine from 1945–82 and was a specialist in gastroenterology. In 1973, Bucaille was appointed family physician to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Another of his patients at the time included members of the family of then President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.

Reviews

[Nazir · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why isnt it on audio

[Fred Kohn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book because Maurice Bucaille was claimed to have found sea salt in the mummy of the pharaoh of the Exodus, confirming that he died by drowning. In fact, Bucaille claims no such thing in this book, although perhaps he makes that claim in his book The Bible, the Qu'ran and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge. He does claim that Merneptah was definitely the pharaoh of the Exodus, but for other reasons. I actually expected this book to be rather tedious, but in fact it was fascinating.

[Tart · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is good , you kinda have to have a medical background to understand it better , other than that … WHERE IS THE PROCLIAMED SEA SALT ON RAMSES II ?? I looked everywhere in the book , reread entire passages over and over , nothing , NOTHING about sea salt. I am really disappointed but other than that I totally recommend the book if you want to read about Egyptology and medical investigations , the most fascinating subject was the part about red blood cells , yeah you heard me RED BLOOD CELLS THAT DATES THOUSANDS OF YEARS !! , they found that and rehydrated it making it almost like fresh samples ot RBC , kinda shows how crazy skilled the embalmers were. I mean if they were alive they would be amazed by their job too , I didn’t expect myself to enjoy this book but here we are :)

[Bushra · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. Liked it but my fav portion of linking Pharoah to exodus and Moses portion was just a chapter so im a bit disappointed.

[nas · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 ⭐️

A surprisingly interesting read with some (a lot) of unnecessary commentary. The chapters linking Pharoahs to the exodus are short.

[Mrs. Roy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Saw this on a display shelf about Egypt at my local library. Just HAD to get it. So far, kinda like CSI, but about mummies. SO glad to get back to my favorite genre - NON fiction.

About to give up on this one. The translation from French is very obvious and not good. The author spends almost an entire section of the book moaning about the mistreatment of King Tut's mummified body by early 1900s archaeologists. The problem with his critique is that he doesn't seem to realize that almost NO one cared about preserving the archaeoligical record at that time in archaeological history. Can he really fault these guys for doing something they didn't think was wrong? At any rate, he spends WAY too long writing about it.

I'm just getting to the part about his actual investigation of the mummies' bodies.

[Ageofdigital · Rating 5 out of 5]

good