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Pringle, Heather Anne.
    The mummy congress : science, obsession, and the
  everlasting dead / Heather Pringle.—1st ed.
        p.    cm.
    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN 0-7868-6551-2
    1.Mummies.2.Human remains (Archaeology).
  3.Forensic anthropology.4.Physical anthropology.
  5.Body, Human—Social aspects.I.Title.

GN293 .P75 2001
393′.3—dc21

00-054487

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