Book Review: 'The Missing Mummy' by Ron Roy

Book Review: 'The Missing Mummy' by Ron Roy

This book is all about Egyptian mummies.

I am fond of reading. Yesterday, I was reading a book called ‘The Missing Mummy’ by Ron Roy. This book is all about Egyptian mummies. These mysterious things ignited my curiosity. I was surprised to get so much information about them. I got to know that they are very useful. ‘Mummy’ is a dead human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. The reason why they are useful is because they have been kept since olden days.

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We can uncover the mysteries of their appearance, age and even the clothes and jewellery they adorned. These royal mummies were filled with gold and exquisite jewellery. At the time of death, if their eyes were open, these would stay open for a very long time. Not only human mummies, even animals such as bulls and deer were preserved as mummies.

Egypt has been famous for the best mummies around 1570-1575 A.D. The Egyptians believed that If the mummy was destroyed, the whole soul was demolished. They also believed that they should not remove the heart because the intelligence should stay in the Mummy.

Mummy mask is a very important outer trapping placed over the head to provide an idealized image of the deceased as a resurrected being from cartonnage, a cheap and lightweight material. The heat and dryness of the sand dehydrated the bodies quickly, creating lifelike and natural ‘mummies’. Later, the ancient Egyptians began burying their dead in coffins to protect them from wild animals in the desert. They developed and continued this process for 2000 years in the Roman Period. A famous example of a very old mummy child, Chinchorro which was found in the Carsmones Valley, Chile dates around 5050 BC. Mummies do not smell too.

King Tut’s mummy, which came into the limelight, opened the new doors to a collaboration of history with scientific advancement .Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, making his mummy over 3,300 years old. The burial chamber was found in 1922 but was not opened until a year later. Two years passed between the discovery of the tomb and that of the mummy and its famous death mask. The mystery of this strange death of King Tut was investigated on the mummy.

Initially when I saw these mummies in the book, they looked scary. Now I am not afraid as there is nothing to be troubled of, rather it is a gateway to unfold the ambiguities. To conclude, I must say that when this pandemic will pass, I will surely visit Egypt’s pyramids and have a glimpse at those exciting mummies!

Ruhaanee Singh is a student of grade 6 studying in ICSK( Junior) Kuwait. She loves to read sing and dance.

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