Campell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum

‘Golden mummies of Egypt presents a rich perspective on Egyptian mummies and western approaches to them. Based around an exhibition of Manchester Museum’s collection and informed by the history of its development, Campbell Price’s treatment, with beautiful photographs by Julia Thorne, offers many new insights into ancient practices and their modern interpreters.’John Baines, Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford

• Foreword – Esme Ward1 Gold, Sex, Art, Death2 Egypt, Europe and Manchester3 Hawara4 Aegypto Capta: Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt5 Papyri and Provenance – Roberta Mazza6 Scintillating Flesh: The Divine Deceased7 Facing the Dead8 Modern Technology and the Manchester Mummies – Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin9 Receptions: Between Rapture and RevulsionIndex

Campell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum

‘Golden mummies of Egypt presents a rich perspective on Egyptian mummies and western approaches to them. Based around an exhibition of Manchester Museum’s collection and informed by the history of its development, Campbell Price’s treatment, with beautiful photographs by Julia Thorne, offers many new insights into ancient practices and their modern interpreters.’John Baines, Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford

• Foreword – Esme Ward1 Gold, Sex, Art, Death2 Egypt, Europe and Manchester3 Hawara4 Aegypto Capta: Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt5 Papyri and Provenance – Roberta Mazza6 Scintillating Flesh: The Divine Deceased7 Facing the Dead8 Modern Technology and the Manchester Mummies – Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin9 Receptions: Between Rapture and RevulsionIndex

Campell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum

‘Golden mummies of Egypt presents a rich perspective on Egyptian mummies and western approaches to them. Based around an exhibition of Manchester Museum’s collection and informed by the history of its development, Campbell Price’s treatment, with beautiful photographs by Julia Thorne, offers many new insights into ancient practices and their modern interpreters.’John Baines, Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford

• Foreword – Esme Ward1 Gold, Sex, Art, Death2 Egypt, Europe and Manchester3 Hawara4 Aegypto Capta: Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt5 Papyri and Provenance – Roberta Mazza6 Scintillating Flesh: The Divine Deceased7 Facing the Dead8 Modern Technology and the Manchester Mummies – Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin9 Receptions: Between Rapture and RevulsionIndex