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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
1180L
Physical Desc
58 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the discovery of the oldest human mummy in the 1990s by two mountain climbers on the Austrian border, in this exciting volume that reveals how glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice, are now offering up many secrets from the past.
22) The mummy
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.
Violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity.
Author
Series
Furry and Flo volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (121 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When piles of sand start showing up all over Corman Towers, it can only mean one thing - trouble. Sure enough, a mummy has escaped from the mysterious crack in the basement. It's up to Furry and Flo to guide the mummy back to his own world. But when they fall through the crack too, Furry and Flo find themselves in a whole new world of trouble. As the portal home grows smaller and smaller, the two friends must work together to solve an ancient riddle...
24) The mummy
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Jonathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Jonathan is keen on finding legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Imhotep, a former high priest to the pharaoh, wants not only to use Evelyn's body...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Mummy's story was inspired by the opening of King Tut's tomb in 1922. The film producers of the early Dracula and Frankenstein films wasted no time creating a character who's been creeping out of his coffin and entertaining audiences since 1932. Author Sheila Keenan explains the history of the movie and its remakes, the legendary curse of King Tut's mummy, and what lies ahead for this monstrous creature" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Featuring clear pages that allow the reader to glimpse beneath the surface, See-through mummies will show you the secrets, legends, methods, and the exact step-by-step science of the practice of creating ancient mummies..."
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 26
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
98 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo and friends go to the Eyptian Museum just before Halloween to investigate what seems to be a real live mummy.
29) Mammoth
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth in the Canadian wilderness gives wealthy visionary Howard Christian the opportunity of a lifetime: to clone it. But what really piques Christian's curiosity is what he finds next to the mammoth: a metal box-and the mummified body of a man wearing a watch.
Working to discover the box's purpose and clone the mammoth, a top physicist and an elephant veterinarian will be flung thousands of years into...
Author
Series
Twisted journeys volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (111 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The mummies of Pyramid X are on the move-against you! How will you escape? Every Twisted Journeys® graphic novel lets YOU control the action by choosing which path to follow. Which twists and turns will your journey take?
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1996, archaeologists made an incredible discovery -- a huge, ancient burial place in the Western Desert of Egypt. As the team worked at the site, they discovered mummies encased in gold, jewels, coins, and jars that once held wine. What have archaeologists learned about life in ancient Egypt by studying the mummies? What secrets have the artifacts buried in the tombs revealed? And could it be possible that more than 10,000 ancient Egyptian mummies...
Author
Series
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First graphic novel edition.
Lexile measure
GN 450L
Physical Desc
149 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to ancient Egypt. Inside a pyramid, Jack and Annie find a long-dead queen who needs their help solving a centuries-old riddle. If only they can find their way through the pyramid's maze!" -- Provided by publisher.
36) The mummy
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mummy is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a British archaeology team. Dressed in the garb of a modern-day Egyptian, he sets out to find his lost love, terrorizing the members of the expedition who must find a way to stop him.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Leo San Juan, Don Andrés, Teodora and el Alebrije come to Guanajuato to solve a mystery concerning the famous mummies there and save their friend Xóchitl.
38) Ancient Egypt
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From pyramids and mummies to pharaohs and gods, kids will learn all about the history and culture of this fascinating land.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange...