Tut's Mummy

Author: Judy Donnelly
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385374623
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Illus. in full color with black-and-white & full-color photos. "Beginning with the death of Tutankhamen, the book moves forward to archaeologist Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb. Information about ancient Egyptian life is interspersed in a clear, smooth fashion throughout. A good way to get readers into non-fiction."--Booklist.

The Curse of King Tut's Mummy (Totally True Adventures)

Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307494683
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
When the pharoahs of Egypt died, they were mummified and buried in pyramids and tombs with all their riches. But as centuries passed, the tombs were looted and the pharoahs' gold stolen. Then Howard Carter found the greatest Egyptian treasure trove of all—the tomb of King Tut's mummy! But did the amazing treasure come with a deadly curse?

The Shadow King

Author: Jo Marchant
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut's mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. Archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king's tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy's story--even more dramatic than King Tut's life--began. The mummy's "afterlife" is a modern story, not an ancient one. Award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy's story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamorous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today's high-tech scans in volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy's secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can't tell us about King Tutankhamun.

Mummy's Curse, The: Discovering King Tut's Tomb

Author: Blake Hoena
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1618916688
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
The revelation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb brought fame and glory to its discoverers. But as unlucky occurrences hit the crew, people wondered if it brought something more sinister as well. Through brightly colored illustrations, this graphic narrative examines the tomb’s discovery and the grim events that followed. With aids including a timeline and possible theories, readers can draw their own conclusions about the mummy’s curse in this thrilling narrative.

Tut's Deadly Tomb

Author: Natalie Lunis
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1936087987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Featuring a "Then and Now" section of information, this book describes the illnesses and deaths of people who had entered King Tut's tomb in 1922.

King Tut's Tomb

Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736861861
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Describes King Tut's tomb, including the treasures found there, King Tut's mummy, and what scientists have learned from the tomb's discovery.

The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Howard Carter
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Through this fascinating story we experience the adventure, the painstaking work, the magic, the excitement and the awe through the eyes of the "tomb raider" himself, archaeologist Howard Carter. This book tells the story of one of the greatest archeological discoveries ever, the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king"), in November 1922.

Apollo 13 (Totally True Adventures)

Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385391250
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Could you survive an outer-space disaster? Aspiring astronauts and young explorers will love this out-of-this-world Totally True Adventure. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise blasted off for the Moon on April 11, 1970. But after a disastrous explosion damaged their spacecraft, the three men had only one goal: to get back home safely. This informational text makes space travel exciting and accessible for younger readers and features illustrations, photographs, a map, and additional Story Behind the Story facts. Perfect for readers of the I Survived series and the Who Was series, Totally True Adventures are captivating nonfiction stories with not-to-be-missed bonus content.

Howard and the Mummy

Author: Tracey Fern
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466898631
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
A captivating picture book biography about Howard Carter, the discoverer of King Tut's tomb in 1922. Howard Carter was obsessed with mummies. He met his first when he was a boy in England and lived near a mansion filled with Egyptian artifacts. Howard dreamed of discovering a mummy himself—especially a royal mummy in its tomb, complete with all its treasures. When he was seventeen, he took a job with the Egypt Exploration Fund and was sent to Egypt to learn about archaeology and excavation sites. And his mummy hunt was on! Howard discovered many amazing artifacts, but he searched for years before coming upon the most famous mummy of all, King Tut. With stunning artwork from Boris Kulikov, and an informative and funny text from Tracey Fern, Howard and the Mummy is a true story about the challenges of discovery and the rewards of perseverance.

Egyptomania

Author: Bob Brier
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 113740146X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
The world has always been fascinated with ancient Egypt. When the Romans conquered Egypt, it was really Egypt that conquered the Romans. Cleopatra captivated both Caesar and Marc Antony and soon Roman ladies were worshipping Isis and wearing vials of Nile water around their necks. What is it about ancient Egypt that breeds such obsession and imitation? Egyptomania explores the burning fascination with all things Egyptian and the events that fanned the flames--from ancient times, to Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the Discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb by Howard Carter in the 1920s. For forty years, Bob Brier, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, has been amassing one of the largest collections of Egyptian memorabilia and seeking to understand the pull of ancient Egypt on our world today. In this original and groundbreaking book, with twenty-four pages of color photos from the author's collection, he explores our three-thousand-year-old fixation with recovering Egyptian culture and its meaning. He traces our enthrallment with the mummies that seem to have cheated death and the pyramids that seem as if they will last forever. Drawing on his personal collection — from Napoleon's twenty-volume Egypt encyclopedia to Howard Carter's letters written from the Valley of the Kings as he was excavating — this is an inventive and mesmerizing tour of how an ancient civilization endures in ours today.