Part of The German Mummy Project and the Dreams of Eternal Life exhibition, sponsored by the Curt Engelhorn Foundation for the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen.

"This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Mummies of the World", which tours selected venues in the United States from July 2010 through July 2013"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mummies : in nature and around the world. From flourishing life to dust : the natural cycle of growth and decay / Burkhard Madea, Johanna Preuss and Frank Musshoff ; Natural mummification : rare, but varied / Wilfried Rosendahl ; People from the ice / Angelika Fleckinger ; Bog bodies : preserved bodies from peat / Heather Gill-Frerking -- Mummies : a tour of the cultures. Mummies, mummification techniques and the cult of the dead in ancient Egypt : a chronological overview / Tanja Pommerening ; Animal mummies and the worship of animals in ancient Egypt / Heimo Hohneck ; Mummies in the Andean regions : the presence of the dead / Virginia and Michael Tellenbach ; Mummies from Oceania : a brief overview / Eva-Maria Gunther ; Mummies in Australia : a special form of aboriginal burial rites / Corinna Erckenbrecht and Heinz H. Klaatsch ; Mummies in China / Jeanette Werning ; The Altai lady and her companions : mummies of the Scythian Pazyryk culture / Barbara Kerneck ; Living Buddhas : mummies in Japan / Melanie Janssen-Kim ; Mummies of the indigenous inhabitants on the Canary Islands / Ursula Thiemer-Sachse ; Mummies in monasteries and churches : monks, popes and princes / Ina Wunn ; Naturally mummified corpses from the Dominican Church in Vac, Hungary / Ildiko Szikossy ... [et al.] ; A death - beyond life - Lenin, Mao, Evita / Luisa Reiblich ; Mummification today : a very modern affair / Angela Graeffen and Kurt W. Alt -- Mumia and mummies in medicine and art. Mumia : from Ozokerite to cure-all / Tanja Pommerening ; Mumia vera Aegyptiaca : a western apothecary's remedy / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif ; "Mumia" and asphalt in the art of painting / Klaus Jurgen-Fischerm -- Mummies talk : modern mummy research methodologies. Mummy insights : x-ray analysis and computed tomography / Kurt W. Alt and Frank J. Ruhli ; Determination of mummy origins using molecular genetic analyses / Christina Rutze, Peter Forster and Joachim Burger ; Isotopic analysis of keratin : information about living environment and nutrition / Herve Bocherens ; Chemical toxicological analysis of hair samples : evidence of narcotics in mummies, too? / Frank Musshoff and Burkhard Madea ; Infested, cursed, contaminated : microbial and chemical contamination in mummies / Jens Klocke and Karin Petersen ; Conservation of mummies : having bones to pick with the dead / Jens Klocke ; Rapid prototyping in medical technology and its application in mummy research / Arthur T. Bens ; Facial reconstruction of mummies : the example Baron von Holz / Ursula Wittwer-Backofen -- Mummies and the media. "Dead or alive? Human or inhuman?" : mummies in film / Diana Wenzel ; Mummies in print : exploring mummy bookos for children and young adults / Heather Gill-Frerking --

Mummies from around the world. Frankfurt's dinosaur mummy / Bernd Herkner ; Animal mummies found in lava caves in the Jordanian Desert / Stephan Kempe and Ahmad Al-Malabeh ; Natural animal mummies on exhibit at the State Museum of Natural History in Braunschweig, Germany / Ulrich Joger ; A mummified fire salamander found in a cave in the northern Franconian Alb of Germany / Brigitte Hilpert ; Animal mummies from the Eve-Maria Zimmermann Collection, Tenerife, Canary Islands / Matthias Feuersenger ; The salt mummy of a yellow-brown boxfish from Hurghada, Egypt / Matthias Feuersenger ; Dima : the baby mammoth / Doris Doppes ; Two unusual glacier animal mummies / Wilfried Rosendahl and Doris Doppes ; The bog dog from Burlage / Markus Bertling, Heather Gill-Frerking and Wilfried Rosendahl ; Bodies buries in bogs : the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands / Vincent T. Van Vilsteren ; Egyptian animal mummies : the Unviersity of Bonn Collection / Gabriele Pieke and Silke Grallert ; Interment, grave goods and eternal life in ancient Egypt : explained by objects from the Unviersity of Heidelberg / Dina Faltings ; Two child mummies and some grave goods of the Byzantine Period from the Egyptian Collection at Heidelberg University, Germany / Beatrix Gessler-Lohr ; Egyptian mummies : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; Egyptian mummies : the Merck Archives in Darmstadt / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif ... [et al.] ; Egyptian mummy skulls : the Marburg Zoological Collection / Jan Harbort ; The Egyptian mummies from Basel / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; The mummy and coffins of Nes-pa-kai-schuti / Dagmar Budde ; The "mummy" from Jena / Matthias Rupp, Sabine Birkenbeil and Sandra Bock ; An Asian mummy from the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; Mummies from Oceania : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Michael Tellenbach ... [et al.] ; South American mummies from the Ethnological Collection of Schloss Gottdorf, Schleswig, Germany / Mechtild Freudenberg ; "Gray and brown" pre-Columbian mummies : the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold / Roger Meyer ... [et al.] ; Peruvian mummies from Delemont, Switzerland / Anna-Maria Begerock ... [et al.] ; Mummies from South America : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collections / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; Mummies found in the Dominican Church in Vac, Hungary / Ildiko Szikossy, Lilla Alida Kristof and Ildiko Pap ; Mummies from Palermo / Dario Piombino-Mascali ... [et al.] ; The mummies from Sommersdorf Castle / Manfred Baron Von Crailsheim ; Historical mummies of human fetuses at the Kassel Museum of Natural History / Jana Mesenholl, Kai Fuldner and Wilfried Rosendahl.