contents Mighty Pharaohs The Big River School on a Giant Scale 10 Gods and Demons Get Ready to Die 14 The Embalmer's Secrets 16 22 Stopping the Rotanassassin 18 Wrapping Your Mummy 20 The Big Day Going Downlon annum 24 Keeping It Secret 26 Ramesses Rises 28 30 Ten Murky Mummy Facts Glossary 31 Index 32
Mighty Pharaohs It s the year 1260BCE and you've arived in ancient Egypt the land of the pharaohs The pharaohs are the most powerful kings ever no question They've been ruling here for two thousand years and to us they're like gods Right now the pharaoh is Ramesses the Great and no one just NO ONE messes with Ramesses Our enemies the Hittites tried once and you can see what happened to THEM in the pictures showing the battle of Kadesh on the temple walls at Karnak Ugh In fact the victory declared by Ramesses at Kadesh in 127 48CE was really a DRAW And he later married a Hittite princess and her sister to patch up the fight My name is Neferu and I'm going to learn the dark secrets of how to turn dead bodies into mummies that last forever It's a brilliantly gruesome job but only the chosen few ever get to do it So if you want to join me don't you dare call me a mummy's boy Ramesses in his war chariot
Who were the Ancient Egyptians The first Egyptians were nomads who settled beside the Hittite Empire River Nile and became farmers Their great days started about 31OOECE when a king called Narmer the Catfish don't ask joined their lands together Egypt Big Hitters and became the first pharaoh About 170 pharaohs came after The Hittites ruled an and ruled over a civilization that empire in what is now lasted three thousand years Narmer's Turkey and Syria son who became the second pharaoh Ramesses took them on was called Aha So he clearly thought in order to defend his it was a good idea too empire's borders and found River Nile them every bit as brave as his own warriors O WARNING AN Mummy makers get involved in some pretty scary stuff So if you don't like blood and guits dark places and dead bodies that come to life and put a on you shut the book
