En esta obra, Bernardo Arriaza y Vivien Standen narran la importancia de los rituales y la momificación artificial en las poblaciones Chinchorro, práctica que comenzó hace 7000 años atrás en la costa de Arica, en el extremo norte de Chile. La transferencia del conocimiento científico aporta significativamente a la identidad cultural y regional y gracias al tesón de estos científicos la Cultura Chinchorro ha ido ganando un espacio relevante dentro del patrimonio cultural de la Historia Universal. Bernardo Arriaza and Vivien Standen present the importance of rituals and artificial mummification practices of the Chinchorro people. This ancient culture began mummifying their dead 7000 years ago along the Arica coast, in northern Chile. Sharing scientific knowledge is a fundamental undertaking that significantly contributes to cultural and regional identity. In addition, due to the continuous efforts of these researchers, the Chinchorro Culture has been gaining a significant place in the cultural patrimony of our Universal History.

Looks at the beliefs and death rituals of the ancient Egyptians, highlighting mummification.

This text discusses the mummification processes used in ancient Egypt and their relevance and importance to the religious beliefs and elaborate funeral rites of the Egyptians.

"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.

Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.

"This exhibition explains the concepts, rituals and magical procedures which would guide the dead through the fearsome hall of judgement and on to the paradise of the Field of Reeds."--Back cover.

Previously published in different form in 2002.