THE MUMMY MAKERS OF EGYPT

A gorgeous tale about a family of Egyptian embalmers with lush illustrations in the Egyptian style.

From artist and Egypt specialist Tamara Bower comes her third, gorgeous book about ancient Egypt. Using the classic style of Egyptian art, the book is painstakingly accurate in facts and illustrative style. Artifacts, funerary customs, hieroglyphs, and details of life in ancient Egypt are told through the eyes of Ipy, whose father is embalmer to the King. Yuya, father of the Queen, has died and Ipy must help his father in the mummification process.
Yuya is a real mummy and the actual discovery of his tomb in the Valley of
the Kings was a spectacular fin - —overshadowed only by the later discovery
of King Tut, Yuya's great-grandson.

The book features sidebars on hieroglyphs and their meanings, a map, and
an afterword telling more about the life of Yuya, the burial process, and ancient Egypt in general. While there are a number of children's books on mummies, none are told from the point of view of the embalmers, and none are written and illustrated with the meticulousness of Tamara Bower.